Neil Avery's guest appearances

Neil Avery

Streaming Audio: Apache Kafka® & Real-Time Data

Fistful of Chords

Jason Bell

Sam Ritchie

Kent Beck

Cornelia Davis

Anna McDonald

Kelsey Hightower

Lena Hall

Jay Smith

Wilko Johnson

Matt Simpson

Colin McCabe

Sam Newman

Chris Difford

Josh Long

Gwen Shapira

OwlTail

Nigel Planer

Comedy and acting legend Nigel Planer has enjoyed an illustrious career over four decades. Enjoying No. 1 and No. 2 chart hits, in character as Neil from The Young Ones, Planer is no stranger to the music business. He's teamed up with songwriter Neil Avery to record an album of new songs, which the pair discuss here. Planer also talks about his music career, including dodging bottles of urine at The Monsters of Rock Festival and messing about outside the gents' toilets with Status Quo at the Band Aid recordings.

Nigel Planer and Neil Avery

Neil Avery explores the intersection between FaaS and event streaming applications before taking a quick detour back in time to understand how we've gotten to this point in event-driven applications. He'll explain the pros and cons of FaaS, and cover how in its current state cold starts and latency concerns need to be part of the bigger picture when building streaming applications. Finally, Neil shares five rules that will help you understand how FaaS fits with the event streaming application.EPISODE LINKSJourney to Event Driven – Part 1: Why Event-First Thinking Changes EverythingJourney to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven ArchitectureJourney to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and ServerlessJourney to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

<p>Neil Avery explores the intersection between FaaS and event streaming applications before taking a quick detour back in time to understand how we've gotten to this point in event-driven applications. He'll explain the pros and cons of FaaS, and cover how in its current state cold starts and latency concerns need to be part of the bigger picture when building streaming applications. Finally, Neil shares five rules that will help you understand how FaaS fits with the event streaming application.<br/><br/>EPISODE LINKS</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/journey-to-event-driven-part-1-why-event-first-thinking-changes-everything" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journey to Event Driven – Part 1: Why Event-First Thinking Changes Everything</a></li><li><a href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/journey-to-event-driven-part-2-programming-models-event-driven-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture</a></li><li><a href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/journey-to-event-driven-part-3-affinity-between-events-streams-serverless" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journey to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless</a></li><li><a href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/journey-to-event-driven-part-4-four-pillars-of-event-streaming-microservices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices</a></li></ul>

The Future of Serverless and Streaming with Neil Avery