The Truth About ZooKeeper Removal and the KIP-500 Release in Apache Kafka ft. Jason Gustafson and Colin McCabe

A quick summary of the most important features in Confluent Platform 5.3. We discuss improved Kubernetes and Ansible support, improvements to Confluent Control Center that give you better insight into...

31 Jul 201913min

Zenreach is a company that makes tools to help retailers use digital marketing more effectively. If that sounds like a problem that only marketing people would be interested in, that’s because you don...

29 Jul 201931min

Is Apache Kafka® actually a database? Can you install Confluent Control Center on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? All this, plus some tips from Dan Norwood, the first user of Kafka Streams. EPISODE LINK...

22 Jul 201923min

Author Dylan Scott tells all about his upcoming Manning title Kafka in Action, which shares how Apache Kafka® can be used by beginners who are just starting out their own projects and dispels common H...

15 Jul 201938min

Friends don’t let friends do dual writes! Gunnar Morling (Software Engineer, Red Hat) joins us on the podcast to share a little bit about what Debezium is, how it works, and which databases it support...

10 Jul 201949min

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a distributed systems engineer at Confluent? Core Kafka Engineer Jason Gustafson dives into the challenges of working on distributed systems, particularly when it come...

2 Jul 201945min

Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Experience, Confluent) explains what’s new in Apache Kafka® 2.3 and highlights some of the most important Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs). EPISODE LINKS ...

25 Jun 201913min

If you operate a Kafka cluster, hopefully you upgrade your brokers occasionally. Each release of Apache Kafka® includes detailed documentation that describes a tested procedure for doing a rolling upg...

25 Jun 201942min