Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Guozhang Wang
Tim Berglund picks the brain of a distributed systems engineer, Guozhang Wang, tech lead in the Streaming department of Confluent. Guozhang explains what compelled him to join the Stream Processing te...
25 Jan 202144min
Scaling Developer Productivity with Apache Kafka ft. Mohinish Shaikh
Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform run efficiently largely because of the dedication of the Developer Productivity (DevProd) team, formerly known as the Tools team. Mohinish Shaikh (Software Engin...
20 Jan 202134min
Change Data Capture and Kafka Connect on Microsoft Azure ft. Abhishek Gupta
What’s it like being a Microsoft Azure Cloud advocate working with Apache Kafka® and change data capture (CDC) solutions? Abhishek Gupta would know! At Microsoft, Abhishek focuses his time on Kafka, d...
11 Jan 202143min
Event Streaming Trends and Predictions for 2021 ft. Gwen Shapira, Ben Stopford, and Michael Noll
Coming out of a whirlwind year for the event streaming world, Tim Berglund sits down with Gwen Shapira (Engineering Leader, Confluent), Ben Stopford (Senior Director, Office of the CTO, Confluent), an...
6 Jan 202144min
How to Become a Certified Apache Kafka Expert ft. Niamh O’Byrne and Barry Ballard
It’s one thing to know how to use Apache Kafka® and another to prove it to the world that you know. Niamh O’Byrne (Certification Manager, Confluent) and Barry Ballard (Senior Technical Trainer, Conflu...
28 Dec 202043min
Mastering DevOps with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Confluent Cloud ft. Rick Spurgeon and Allison Walther
How do you use Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud for DevOps? Integration Architects Rick Spurgeon and Allison Walther share how, including a custom tool they’ve developed for thi...
22 Dec 202046min
Apache Kafka 2.7 - Overview of Latest Features, Updates, and KIPs
Apache Kafka® 2.7 is here! Here are the key Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) and updates in this release, presented by Tim Berglund. KIP-497 adds a new inter-broker API to alter in-sync replicas (I...
21 Dec 202010min
Choreographing the Saga Pattern in Microservices ft. Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson, creator of the original Cloud Foundry, maintainer of microservices.io and author of “Microservices Patterns,” discovered cloud computing in 2006 during an Amazon talk about APIs for ...
16 Dec 202047min
