Adam Bellemare is a principal technologist in the Technology Strategy Group at Confluent. He has worked on a wide range of projects, including event-driven data mesh theory and proof of concepts, event-driven microservice strategies, and event and event stream design principles. Before Confluent Adam worked in multiple e-commerce companies as a big data platform engineer, focusing on building batch solutions using Apache Spark, HDFS, and early S3, before turning his attention to event-driven architectures. Since then he has been largely focused on building micro (and regular) services with Apache Kafka, and evangelizing the benefits of publishing useful business facts as a general-purpose data access layer. Adam is the author of O'Reilly's "Building Event-Driven Microservices" (2020) and "Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh" (2023).