December 18, 2018 | Episode 15

Ask Confluent #8: Guozhang Wang on Kafka Streams Standby Tasks

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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. In "Ask Confluent," Gwen Shapira (Data Architect, Confluent) and guests respond to a handful of questions and comments from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

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