Real Time Stream Processing with KSQL and Kafka David Peterson, Confluent APAC APIdays Melbourne 2018 Unordered, unbounded and massive datasets are increasingly common in day-to-day business. Using this to your advantage is incredibly difficult with current system designs. We are stuck in a model where we can only take advantage of this *after* it has happened. Many times, this is too late to be useful in the enterprise. KSQL is a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL lowers the entry bar to the world of stream processing, providing a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for processing data in Kafka. KSQL (like Kafka) is open-source, distributed, scalable, and reliable. A real time Kafka platform moves your data up the stack, closer to the heart of your business, allowing you to build scalable, mission-critical services by quickly deploying SQL-like queries in a severless pattern. This talk will highlight key use cases for real time data, and stream processing with KSQL: Real time analytics, security and anomaly detection, real time ETL / data integration, Internet of Things, application development, and deploying Machine Learning models with KSQ. Real time data and stream processing means that Kafka is just as important to the disrupted as it is to the disruptors.