Stefan Hudelmaier

I am a developer. My day job is at IoT company Device Insight (we are known in the Kafka community for our open source tool kafkactl). On nights and weekends, I am working on my passion project, the Grand Central Message Broker (gcmb.io). This is a platform that is based on the following idea: Provide and consume streaming data in a collaborative manner. I made the following observation: In development, source code repositories used to be silos, only used in the context of a single company or project. With the advent of GitHub, things changed: There was now a space where collaboration could happen, code could be made available, searched for, re-used, developed together across individuals and organizations. You could argue that the streaming world is in a place where software development used to be. Data is created, handled and processed in silos. Which is fine, a lot of data is private to organizations and should not be shared. There is, however, streaming data that can be useful for a wider audience. This is primarily in the realm of Open Data. There is a lot of this around the world, however, most of it is in static datasets. My vision is to make Open Data available in a…