Stefan Sprenger

An ever growing number of developers discover the capabilities of data streaming platforms and apply them in their software projects. How can we make them more successful working with technologies, such as Apache Kafka or Apache Flink? Take a deep dive into Confluent's VS Code extension, which provides a delightful developer experience for data streaming projects. We’ll cover the main components of the extension’s architecture and discuss how they provide a seamless integration with Kafka and Flink. For instance, attendees will gain an insider's perspective on why we chose to run a GraalVM-powered sidecar executable and how it enhances our extension’s performance and capabilities. We will also share some of the notable challenges our development team encountered, and how we overcame them to deliver a robust user experience. Finally, we will highlight some of our newest features and improvements, and show how they support your data streaming projects from development through production.