In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Confluent co-founder and CTO Neha Narkhede talks about the Apache Kafka's evolution from a scalable message bus into a critical component of modern application architectures. This includes everything from feeding data into machine learning pipelines to analyzing streaming data using the new KSQL feature. Narkhede also discusses the importance of cloud-native architectures and how platforms from AWS to Kubernetes are influencing how Confluent thinks about its business.