Kafka summit in review — 2021 Europe

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I had the pleasure to present at Kafka Summit Europe 2021 — my talk focused on running advanced SQL queries on streams of Kafka data. For the most part my talk centered around Continuous SQL — including the criticality of time (using timestamps in Kafka and Flink as part of SQL queries) in streams. Especially the difference and usage of event-time vs processing-time and windows in SQL. I also talked about more advanced things…