Ask Confluent #7: Kafka Consumers and Streams Failover Explained ft. Matthias Sax

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Guozhang Wang, Kafka Streams pioneer and engineering lead at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about standby tasks and how one deserializes message headers.

Gwen asks: What happens when garbage collection causes Kafka to pause? And how do we run a Schema Registry cluster? We’ll find out in this episode of Ask Confluent.

Tim Berglund hosts Developer Advocate Ricardo Ferreira to discuss the concept of infrastructure as code, as well as the differences between Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef.