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Why Managing Your Apache Kafka® Schemas Is Costing You More Than You Think

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  • Mohtasham is an Associate Solutions Architect at Confluent, where he focuses on enabling organizations to build scalable, real-time data platforms using technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Kubernetes. With deep expertise in AI, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven architecture, he helps customers unlock the full potential of data streaming. Mohtasham is multi-cloud certified and actively engaged in the cloud community, where he shares his insights and supports knowledge sharing across cloud-native and data engineering spaces.

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