about the author

Bill Bejeck, Apache Kafka® committer and PMC member, has been a software engineer for over 20 years. Currently, he is working at Confluent as a Staff DevX Engineer. Previously, Bill was an engineer on the Kafka Streams team for three-plus years. Before Confluent, he worked on various ingest applications as a U.S. Government contractor using distributed software such as Apache Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop. Bill maintains a blog, “Random Thoughts on Coding” (http://codingjunkie.net).