QCon London 2026: Introducing Tansu.io — Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:01:00 GMT

Peter Morgan introduced Tansu at QCon London, an open-source, Kafka-compatible, stateless, leaderless broker that scales to zero, with pluggable storage (S3, SQLite, Postgres), broker-side schema validation, and direct writes to Iceberg and Delta Lake. Written in Rust, it uses 20MB of RAM and starts in 10 milliseconds.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon London 2026: Morgan Stanley Rethinks Its API Program for the MCP Era

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:11:00 GMT

Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. First API deployment shrank from two years to two weeks. They also demoed Google's A2A protocol running alongside MCP.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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QCon London 2026: Introducing Tansu.io — Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

QCon London 2026: Morgan Stanley Rethinks Its API Program for the MCP Era