Interview with Aklivity co-founders John and Leonid

In this podcast interview, the founders of Aklivity, John and Leonid, discuss their journey from working on WebSocket at Kaazing to starting Aklivity. Aklivity aims to support event-driven architectures, particularly those based on Kafka. They also highlight the lessons they learned at Kaazing, emphasizing the importance of meeting clients where they are and using familiar tools and APIs.

We delve into the features and capabilities of Zilla, an open-source project developed by Aklivity. Zilla acts as a proxy for Apache Kafka and supports both source and sink APIs. It allows for data extraction from various sources, placing it into an asynchronous system, and exposing it as an external API. The integration with Kafka ensures reliable event-driven architectures, while Zilla’s Kafka cache provides advanced features such as indexing, filtering, and message sharding.