[rb2k_]

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]

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]

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]

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