Lyndon Hedderly

This article appeared in ITProPortal in Dec 2019 (has 390K active monthly users):  

https://www.itproportal.com/features/event-streaming-a-vehicle-for-it-modernisation/

Event-streaming platforms can act as a key accelerator of IT modernisation by accessing business...

In Nov 2019 I presented at a series of Confluent Streaming Events - Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris.  

Here's a summary of my talk. 

Hi, I’m Lyndon (from London) and I’ve been working at Confluent at a Customer Solutions Director for the past...

This article was published in ITProPortal in Oct 2019

What is event streaming and how can it be applied to all organisations?

Relational database management systems (RDBMSes) have dominated large-scale data processing applications since the late 1970’s. They now have a y...

Talk at Kafka Summit in London:  DRAFT NOTES 

Connecting Kafka to Cash (CKC):  May 13, 2019, 4:15 pm - 4:55 pm

https://kafka-summit.org/events/kafka-summit-london-2019/

https://kafka-summit.org/speakers/lyndon-hedderly-2/

Summary: 

Hello, my name is Lyndon Hedderly, I...

I talked at the CDO Exchange in London in March 2019. 

https://chiefdataofficerexchange.iqpc.co.uk/speakers

Overview of the talk. 

Abstract:

There is a significant shift underway in data infrastructure and application architecture –Event Streaming.  This talk will develop...

This is a rough transcript of the talk I gave at Kafka Summit in San Francisco Pier 27 in October 2018. 

________________

Intro blurb... Hello, I’m Lyndon Hedderly,  I’m a Director of Customer Solutions in Confluent.  

I’m going to talk about the VALUE of Kafka and...

As I prepare for a Kafka Summit talk in October 2018, I've started reading a few articles around extracting value from data.  

I recently come across these three McKinsey papers: 

1. McKinsey Five Fifty: The Data Disconnect

2. Achieving business impact with data

...

Whilst the word “Datafication” is yet to enter a dictionary, I define it here as

"the transformation of events into data, or formats that can be stored digitally" 
 

In the past, data was typically manually entered, via a keyboard, into a computer system. Today, many ‘ev...

At Confluent, we’ve worked with a number organizations that have architected themselves around event-streaming platforms, to the extent the platform has become fundamental to how the business operates.  

These organizations range from digital natives to more traditional...

I talked at Big Data Analytics (London), in June this year (https://whitehallmedia.co.uk/bdajun2018/). 

Here's a summary of my talk.  The theme was old architecture existing alongside the new. 

As the event was in Victoria, London, I showed the following digi...