As I explore the current world of data & analytics engineering, one of the things I’m trying to grok is the idea of a Metric Layer (described by Drew Banin in this keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSMSbQxnO0 and Benn Stancil here https://benn.substack.com/p/metrics-layer). It strikes me as conceptually similar to what #OBIEE did in its logical layer with measures. Admittedly it was almost always exposed through the tool’s front end itself, but there was an ODBC and JDBC (https://rmoff.

whoami Robin is a Sr. Principal Advisor, Streaming Data Technologies at Confluent. He has been speaking at conferences since 2009 including QCon, Devoxx, Strata, Kafka Summit, and Øredev. You can find his talks online, subscribe to his YouTube channel, and read his blog. Outside of work, Robin enjoys running, drinking good beer, and eating fried breakfasts—although generally not at the same time. 👉🏻 Bio & speaker photos Speaking experience Speaker since 2009 at conferences including QCon, Devoxx, O’Reilly Strata, NDC, USENIX LISA, Kafka Summit, Øredev, O’Reilly SACon, Oracle OpenWorld, JavaZone, Big Data LDN, UKOUG, Oracle CODE, PGConf, etc plus numerous meetups.

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You can find all my recent talks on Notist at https://talks.rmoff.net/. Older ones are on Speaker Deck. I have a variety of talks, around several different aspects of Apache Kafka and related technologies. Kafka 101 / introductory talk : “Kafka as a Platform: the Ecosystem from the Ground Up” Introduction to ksqlDB and stream processing principles and semantics - with lots of live demos. “An introduction to ksqlDB” Live demo showing use of Kafka Connect and ksqlDB: “Apache Kafka in Action : Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!