# MicroProfile Reactive Messaging | Grace Jansen | IBM | Kongcast Episode 18

## About This Episode

In this episode of Kongcast, Viktor talks with Grace Jansen, Developer Advocate at IBM about stateful workloads in a cloud environment, bringing down the monolith, what does ‘cloud native’ really mean, and how easy it can be to add in reactive behaviors to your application using event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging.

## About Kongcast

Hosted by Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We'll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level. Kongcast goes beyond the buzzwords and dissects real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.