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December 12, 2019 | Episode 72

Ask Confluent #16: ksqlDB Edition

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Vinoth Chandar has led various infrastructure projects at Uber and is one of the main drivers behind the ksqlDB project. In this episode hosted by Gwen Shapira (Engineering Manager, Cloud-Native Apache Kafka®), Vinoth and Gwen discuss what ksqlDB is, the kinds of applications that you can build with it, vulnerabilities, and various ksqlDB use cases. They also talk about what's currently the best version of Apache Kafka version for performance improvements that don’t cause breaking changes to existing Kafka configuration and functionality. 

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