Can Kafka be my database? Jun Rao, a co-founder at Confluent, the rocket-ship startup behind Apache Kafka®, answers this question and more in a round of database bingo with The Data Wranglers Joe Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer. Rao discusses best use cases for Kafka, both traditional and newer applications, along with how to use SQL and variations for data transformation. Rao, who goes deep in both open-source and the roots of the database industry, is the co-author of more than 20 reference research papers and the co-inventor of more than a dozen U.S. software patents. #TheDataWranglers