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Episode 185November 9, 2021 | 12 min

Confluent Platform 7.0: New Features + Updates

Confluent Platform 7.0 has launched and includes Apache Kafka 3.0, plus new features introduced by KIP-630: Kafka Raft Snapshot, KIP-745: Connect API to restart connector and task, and KIP-695: Further improve Kafka Streams timestamp synchronization. Reporting from Dubai, Tim Berglund (Senior Director, Developer Advocacy, Confluent) provides a summary of new features, updates, and improvements to the 7.0 release, including the ability to create a real-time bridge from on-premises environments to the cloud with Cluster Linking.

Episode 184November 4, 2021 | 35 min

Real-Time Stream Processing with Kafka Streams ft. Bill Bejeck

Kafka Streams is a native streaming library for Apache Kafka that consumes messages from Kafka to perform operations like filtering a topic’s message and producing output back into Kafka. After working as a developer in stream processing, Bill Bejeck (Apache Kafka Committer and Integration Architect, Confluent) has found his calling in sharing knowledge and authoring his book, “Kafka Streams in Action.” As a Kafka Streams expert, Bill is also the author of the Kafka Streams 101 course on Confluent Developer, where he delves into what Kafka Streams is, how to use it, and how it works.

Episode 183October 26, 2021 | 30 min

Automating Infrastructure as Code with Apache Kafka and Confluent ft. Rosemary Wang

Managing infrastructure as code (IaC) instead of using manual processes makes it easy to scale systems and minimize errors. Rosemary Wang (Developer Advocate, HashiCorp, and author of “Essential Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices”) is an infrastructure engineer at heart and an aspiring software developer who is passionate about teaching patterns for infrastructure as code to simplify processes for system admins and software engineers familiar with Python, provisioning tools like Terraform, and cloud service providers.

Episode 182October 19, 2021 | 32 min

Getting Started with Spring for Apache Kafka ft. Viktor Gamov

What’s the distinction between the Spring Framework and Spring Boot? If you are building a car, the Spring Framework is the engine while Spring Boot gives you the vehicle that you ride in. With experience teaching and answering questions on how to use Spring and Apache Kafka together, Viktor Gamov (Principal Developer Advocate, Kong) designed a free course on Confluent Developer and previews it in this episode. Not only this, but he also explains why the opinionated Spring Framework would be a good hero in Marvel.

Episode 181October 14, 2021 | 38 min

Powering Event-Driven Architectures on Microsoft Azure with Confluent

When you order a pizza, what if you knew every step of the process from the moment it goes in the oven to being delivered to your doorstep? Event-Driven Architecture is a modern, data-driven approach that describes “events” (i.e., something that just happened).

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