I think this is the first post I've seen about Samza from a non-LinkedIn team. I...

rb2k_ · on April 13, 2015

I don't think Confluent really counts as "non-LinkedIn team" :)

"Jay is co-founder and CEO at Confluent. Prior to Confluent, Jay Kreps was the initial developer on several open source projects, including Apache Kafka, Apache Samza, Voldemort. He was the lead architect for data infrastructure at LinkedIn."

(Martin Kleppmann also has a LinkedIn background)

vosper · on April 13, 2015

Ahh, thanks - I checked that the speakers weren't currently working for LinkedIn, but I didn't look further into their backgrounds.

Oh, well. I still hope to one day read about someone else using Samza in production.

martinkl · on April 13, 2015

Here are a few production users: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SAMZA/Powered+By

The Metamarkets team wrote a nice post on their use of Samza a few days ago: https://metamarkets.com/2015/simplicity-stability-and-transp...

felipesabino · on April 14, 2015

Interesting, I would be very interested in learning more about Metamarkets transition to Samza, as 1 yr ago they were using Storm instead [1] [2]

Or may be they did not transition and are actually using both, I don't know

[1] https://youtu.be/3Qb_2GGRz24?t=20m24s

[2] https://storm.apache.org/documentation/Powered-By.html