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Kevin Hoffman, event sourcing expert and author of dozens of books including “Real-World Event Sourcing”, is director of product management and developer advocate at Akka. Throughout his 20+ year career in software architecture and engineering, Kevin has held senior roles with Capital One, Barclays, Clear, Pivotal, and Synadia. Kevin is the creator of wasmCloud and was CTO for Cosmonic, the first PaaS for WebAssembly.
We’re now in the fifth wave of computing. If that sounds dramatic, that’s because it is—and probably also because someone in marketing really wants to make “agentic AI” stick. For those keeping track at home, the first four waves were mainframes (your granddad’s computer), web (when we were all hopeful), cloud (when we were still […]
Jun 5, 2025 · 3 min