Held in October 2024, Druid Summit brought Apache Druid® community contributors at companies including Netflix, Salesforce, Atlassian, Imply, Roblox and more together to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and best practices across the Druid community.

The summit explored user experience design, operations and optimization techniques, and lakehouse and streaming analytics pipelines. And on this featured partner episode, #DataFemme host Danielle DiKayo interviews Larissa Klitzke, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Imply, about the highlights from Druid Summit.

Want to dive deeper into Druid Summit content? Watch all the keynotes, panels and other sessions on-demand at https://imply.io/events/druid-summit-2024

On this episode, we explore how Kong, a cloud-native API gateway, leverages Apache Druid for real-time data processing and analytics in their platform, Kong Konnect. Hiroshi Fukada, Staff Software Engineer at Kong, shares his insights on managing customer data through Kong Gateway and transitioning to Imply's managed Druid services to simplify their infrastructure. Discover the benefits of Druid, like low latency and ease of use, and learn about Kong's contributions to open source Druid, including the DDSketch extension for improved handling of long-tail distributions.

Want to learn more about Druid and meet the community behind it? Registration for Druid Summit is now open! Register at https://druidsummit.org/

On this episode, we are joined by special co-host Hugh Evans and returning guest Will Xu as we announce Druid Summit 2024 and dive into Druid 30.0's new features and enhancements. Improvements include better ingestion for Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka, enhanced support for Delta Lake, and advanced integrations with Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage.

Come for the technical upgrades like GROUP BY and ORDER BY for complex columns and faster query processing with new IN and AND filters, stay for the stabilized concurrent append and replace API for late-arriving streaming data. We also explore experimental features like the centralized data source schema for better performance. Tune in to learn about the latest on arrays, the upcoming GA for window functions, and the benefits of upgrading Druid!

To submit a talk or register for Druid Summit 2024, visit https://druidsummit.org/