Simple Machines is an Australian based firm of expert consultants at the intersection of data architecture, data engineering, data science and software application development. Our heritage is architecting and engineering highly performant, distributed, data driven platforms and machine learning applications that perform at massive scale. We partner with enterprise, governments and global technology companies to put their data to work in the real world. Simple Machines is a Preferred Confluent consulting and training partner providing specialist consulting services in Kafka. We are also Partners with Databricks and Lightbend, providing training and consulting services in Spark and Scala.