# Emerging Kafka Trends in Connectors, Self-Service Environments, and Stream Processing

DevFeed: [Emerging Kafka Trends in Connectors, Self-Service Environments, and Stream Processing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/three-plus-some-lovely-kafka-trends-18882.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.morling.dev/blog/three-plus-some-lovely-kafka-trends/>)

Published: 2021-05-28T08:30:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Gunnar Morling](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gunnar-morling.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [streaming-data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming-data-processing.md>), [DataOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataops.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [stream-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stream-processing.md>)

## AI overview

The article identifies recurring themes in Kafka community activity: the expanding connector ecosystem and its operational maturity, self-service Kafka environments, and growing adoption of stream processing. It also mentions related concerns including access control, schema management, data lineage, quality, compliance, privacy, and observability.

## Source excerpt

Table of Contents Cambrian Explosion of Connectors Democratization of Data Pipelines Stream Processing for Everyone Honorable Mentions Over the course of the last few months, I've had the pleasure to serve on the Kafka Summit program committee and review several hundred session abstracts for the three Summits happening this year (Europe, APAC, Americas). That's not only a big honour, but also a unique opportunity to learn what excites people currently in the Kafka eco-system (and yes, it's a fair amount of work, too ;). While voting on the proposals, and also generally aspiring to stay informed of what's going on in the Kafka community at large, I noticed a few repeating themes and topics which I thought would be interesting to share (without touching on any specific talks of course). At first I meant to put this out via a Twitter thread, but then it became a bit too long for that, so I decided to write this quick blog post instead. Here it goes!