Kate Stanley is a Software Engineer for IBM based in the UK. As part of the IBM Event Streams team she has gained experience running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes and running enterprise Kafka applications. In her previous role she specialised in cloud native Java applications and microservices architectures. Kate has co-authored an IBM Redbook on Java microservices and works to promote Kafka in the community. She enjoys sharing her experiences and has presented at conferences around the world, including the Kafka Summit in San Francisco, Devoxx Belgium, Jfokus in Sweden and Devoxx UK.