1) Microsoft uses Kafka extensively across multiple datacenters to ingest over 1 million events per second from services like Bing, Ads and Office.
2) The presentation discusses a Kafka-based streaming solution called Siphon that was developed to reduce the latency of customer-facing reports from 4 hours to under 15 minutes.
3) Siphon uses Kafka as a distributed queue and StreamScope for distributed processing. It includes components like a collector for data ingestion, consumer APIs, and monitoring through techniques like canary tests and an audit trail.