# Recording ready to view: SPEAKER Q&A THREAD: 11 January 2023 - Apache Kafka Basics & Discussion on Architecture and Use Cases

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**Watch the recording and ask questions about this event in this thread!**

- 🗓 **When** : 11 January 2023 at 12:30 (UTC)
- 🗣 **Speaker(s)**: Mukul Kumar Singh, Senior Engineering Manager, Confluent
- 📔 **Talk(s)**: Apache Kafka Basics & Discussion on Architecture and Use Cases

https://play.vidyard.com/8D4T96RqLf8jhBmghsXp5Q.html?

This talk will explore the details of Apache Kafka basics, the basic idea of a log, and the need for log processing platform like Apache Kafka

We will also be discussing some most common use cases and how Apache Kafka is helping to solve some of the most common problems in the software industry

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