co-founder of the software start-up company confluent, jay kreps and neha narkhede. they join us on-set. thank you both for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you. >> what is the software you created, jay? how does it work? >> we created the software and made it link in and used it to take care of realtime streams of data increasingly a part of never business. when we were at linkedin we had software to handle big data but slowly. collect it and put it in something, which is kind of what it sounds like. a place to put your data and it sits there. >> you never look at it again. >> yeah. maybe run a report every day, that kind of thing. increasingly companies react to data much more in realtime. data gets used in a way more like a central nervous system, and we didn't have a way to do something like that, and to solve that problem we built kafka and put it into actual production add linkedin, scaled it in to handle over a trillion messages a day and allowed linkedin to link to what was happens. open sourced it and put it out in the world. >> people not famili