Enterprise integration is more challenging than ever before. The IT evolution requires the integration of more and more technologies. Applications are deployed across the edge, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures. Traditional middleware such as MQ, ETL, ESB does not scale well enough or only processes data in batch instead of real-time. This video explores why Apache Kafka is the new black for integration projects, how Kafka fits into the discussion around cloud-native iPaaS solutions, and why event streaming is a new software category. A concrete real-world example shows the difference between event streaming and traditional integration platforms respectively iPaaS.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Motivation
00:43 - Apache Kafka vs. Traditional Middleware
03:33 - Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPaaS 2021(Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service)
06:13 - Apache Kafka as Middleware
11:30 - Data Streaming
16:58 - Kafka vs. Traditional Middleware
28:55 - Why Apache Kafka instead of traditional middleware?
39:46 - Kafka together with other Middleware
45:03 - Kafka and API Management in the Enterprise Architecture
47:11 - Frenemies?

More details about this discussion in the following blog post:

"Is Apache Kafka an iPaaS or is Event Streaming its own Software Category?"
https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2021/...

And here is the slide deck for this presentation:
https://www.slideshare.net/KaiWaehner...