Using Kafka-Leader-Election to Improve Scalability and Performance

It’s a problem endemic to the tech world that we are always focused on what’s coming next, that we often forget to look at where we’ve been. Chris Riccomini, who was there at LinkedIn when Apache Kafk...

16 Mai 201950min

Gwen and Kai chat about machine learning architectures, and whether software engineers and data scientists can learn to get along. EPISODE LINKS Blogs on deploying machine learning workloads: Machine...

8 Mai 201933min

It has been said that in distributed messaging, there are two hard problems: 2) exactly once delivery, 1) guaranteed order of messages and 2) exactly once delivery. Apache Kafka® has offered exactly o...

22 Apr 201947min

Stanislav Kozlovski joins us to discuss common pitfalls when using Kafka consumers and a new KIP that promises to make consumer restarts much smoother. EPISODE LINKS KIP-345: Static consumer membersh...

17 Apr 201922min

Microservices are pretty ubiquitous these days. Really “SOA done right,” they reimagine the services pattern in the context of the world we live in today, nearly two decades since the first big servic...

8 Apr 201958min

After several years of development, librdkafka has finally reached 1.0! It remains API compatible with older versions of the library, so you won’t need to make any changes to your application. There a...

3 Apr 201946min

Do metrics for detecting clients from old versions actually exist? Or is Gwen making features up? This and more useful advice is coming up on today's episode of Ask Confluent. EPISODE LINKS The Java ...

26 Mar 201914min

Nick Dearden explains the five stages of streaming maturity. They are not denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance—that’s the Kübler-Ross model, and it’s for bad things. This one is for aw...

18 Mar 201936min