Q&A session between Jun Rao and Chris Kasten, VP of Walmart Cloud. Jun first asks Chris about his journey at Walmart and his history with Kafka. Chris details his first experiences with needing a real-time data platform back at eBay in 2010 where they chose Kafka and how that experience helped when he had moved to Walmart with a similar need. The pair talk the digital transformation at Walmart and the real-time benifits with using Kafka such as checking inventory, fufillment, secuirty and fraud. Digital transformation. Additionally, the talk about the grocery direction Walmart is going in and how Kafka is helping them with the 11 billion events they stream per day. Lastly, they touch on the partnership between Confluent and Walmart and how Confluent has helped them in their growing success.
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0:34 Chris Kasten comes out onstage
1:10 Chris talks about his journey at Walmart and experience with Kafka
2:50 Evolution of Walmart and its technologies
3:47 Use cases at Walmart
4:34 Local source as an asset or liability at Walmart
5:34 Walmart grocery stores and how Kafka helps
7:20 Walmart and Confluent's partnership
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