Paul Brebner is an Open Source Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr (part of Spot by NetApp). For the last 7 years he has been developing, writing about, and presenting realistic demonstration applications for challenging use cases, with a focus on Kafka performance and scalability, and has recently published his 100th technical blog. Paul has a background in distributed systems R&D and performance engineering, and runs the performance engineering track at ApacheCon/Community over Code conferences.