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Trust me, I’m an engineer. Hi, my name is Ivan Yurchenko. (Also, sometimes spelled as Iurchenko). I am interested in various fields of computing such as distributed systems, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning, functional programming, open source software development. Also I do technical blogging. I am an occasional speaker. Please check out my talks here. ✉ If you have an offer, opportunity, or introduction, email me at interesting [at] ivanyu.

My Talks

2025 The Ins and Outs of KIP-1150: Diskless Topics in Apache Kafka An interview with Greg Harris and Stanislav Kozlovski about KIP-1150 that introduces diskless topics to Apache Kafka. Video. KIP-1150, “Diskless Topics”. How to reduce your Kafka TCO by up to 80%? An interview with the DATANOSCO podcast about KIP-1150 that introduces diskless topics to Apache Kafka. Video. 2023 Apache Kafka tiered storage: why and how? A talk about the scalability problems of the pre-3.