Neil is a Technologist in the Office of the CTO at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka.
His role is as an industry expert in the world of streaming, distributed systems and the next generation of technology as the world becomes real-time. This includes working on fun things like dataflow system design, modeling, stream processing, serverless, developing crazy ideas and bending Kafka in all kinds of directions. With over 25 years of expertise in distributed computing, messaging and stream processing. He is an active member of the CNCF serverless working group. The last 16 years has been mostly in finance and helping startups. Prior to that he was at Thoughtworks, ran his own startup and was the CTO at a fin-tech.
Talks I've Given
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FaaS composition using Kafka and Cloud-Events
Featuring Neil Avery
Serverless functions or FaaS are all the rage.
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Stream All Things—Patterns of Modern Data Integration
Featuring Neil Avery
Data integration is a really difficult problem. We know this because 80% of the time in every project is spent getting the data you want the way you want it. We know this because this problem remains challenging despite 40 years of attempts to solve it. All we want is a service that will be...
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