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That's a Wrap! What You Missed at Kong Summit 2021

So many announcements, so many surprises and a seemingly never-ending list of impactful customer stories! After two and a half days packed with fun and learning, we bid farewell to Kong Summit for another year. If you were one of the almost 5,000 people that registered, you know exactly what we are talking about. Here is a recap of some of the most exciting parts of Kong Summit 2021.

Kong Summit Day 1: 10 Exciting Announcements & More!

We are now deep into our most anticipated event of the year, Kong Summit 2021 (there’s still time to register for Day 2!). More than 4,000 people have registered from 87 countries for the virtual event. After a full day of knowledge and surprises, we are excited to recap the most memorable moments from today.

New Products at Kong Summit 2021 - Kong Istio Gateway, Kong Gateway 2.6, Kong Mesh 1.5 and More!

Today at Kong Summit, we are thrilled to announce several new products, features and capabilities across our entire service connectivity platform with the goal of making service connectivity as invisible and easily consumable as electricity. These updates include making the Kong Istio Gateway integration generally available and debuting Insomnia Projects. We’re excited to share them with you all.

Welcome to Snowpark: New Data Programmability for the Data Cloud

At Snowflake Summit 2021, we announced that Snowpark and Java functions were starting to roll out to customers. Today we’re happy to announce that these features are available in preview to all customers on AWS today. These features represent a major new foray into data programmability, enabling you to more easily make Snowflake’s platform do more for you. Snowflake started its journey to the Data Cloud by completely rethinking the world of data warehousing to accommodate big data.

Kafka Summit Europe 2021: Top talks & takeaways

In keeping with tradition, we’ve chowed our way through the entire all-you-can-eat buffet of Kafka Summit Europe 2021 talks to bring you the best content to catch up on. Jay Kreps’ keynote this year addresses a few Kafka-shaped elephants in the room, as well as an overall shift in the way event-driven business is surfacing. On the technology front, Confluent announced new support for Kubernetes as an orchestration layer running on Kafka in a private cloud.

AWS re:Invent: Apache Kafka takeaways

If anyone's ever been to AWS ReInvent in Vegas before, you'll know it's a crazy ride. This year we missed out (at least we have cleaner consciences and healthier wallets). But the high quality of content hadn't changed. We've been binging on sessions ‘til the bitter end (it officially ended Friday). So for our community, here is a summary of a few talks related to Apache Kafka.

The best of Kafka Summit 2020

After a self-isolated and event-free spring, some of us around the world welcomed a more promising summer. You might be taking some time away on a socially distanced holiday. You might be taking some time away from the day-to-day at home. But if a cold beer in the sun isn't enough to make up for these difficult months, the premier event for the Streaming Data Community is back! Kafka Summit has gone virtual this year and that means you can attend the event from anywhere.

Best pre-COVID-19 events for engineers

Events and Conferences are a core element of any growing industry and ours is no different. It’s the easiest way to learn what’s new and to gain a better understanding of any technology. After all, we might love blogs and online courses, but at the end of the day, is there a better way to process any type of information than a passionately delivered speech or a lively discussion?