Listen to Tim Berglund and guests unpack a variety of topics surrounding Apache Kafka®, Confluent, real-time data streaming, and the cloud.
Jason Gustafson and Colin McCabe, Apache Kafka developers, discuss all things KIP-500 adoption, the removal of ZooKeeper, and how that’s played out on the frontlines within the event streaming world. A previous episode of Streaming Audio featured both developers on the podcast before the release of Apache Kafka 2.8. Now they’re back to share how everything is working in reality.
What is the internet of things (IoT), and how does it relate to event streaming and Apache Kafka? In this episode, Kai Waehner, field CTO and global technology advisor at Confluent, discusses the intersection of edge data infrastructure, IoT, and cloud services for Kafka. He also details how businesses get into the sticky situation of not accounting for solutions when data is running dangerously close to the edge.
Imagine if you could create a better world for future generations simply by delivering marine ingenuity. Van Oord is a Dutch family-owned company that has served as an international marine contractor for over 150 years,. It relies on an enterprise architecture model that must seamlessly integrate data lineage and data governance. The basis of their holistic reference architecture is a change data capture (CDC) layer and a persistent layer that makes Confluent the core component of their future-proof digital data management solution. In this episode, Marlon Hiralal (Enterprise/Data Management Architect, Van Oord) and Andreas Wombacher (Data Engineer, Van Oord) share all about it.
At Klarna, Lead Engineer Tommy Brunn is building a runtime platform for developers. But outside of his professional role, he is also one of the authors of the JavaScript client for Apache Kafka® called KafkaJS, which has grown from being a niche open source project to the most downloaded Kafka client for Node.js since 2018.
Apache Kafka 2.8 is out! This release includes early access to the long-anticipated ZooKeeper removal encapsulated in KIP-500, as well as other key updates Find out what’s new in this episode of Streaming Audio.
Tim Berglund is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the senior director of developer advocacy. He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the U.S. and all over the world. Tim is the co-presenter of various O'Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to distributed systems, and he is the author of "Gradle Beyond the Basics." He lives in Littleton, CO, U.S., with the wife of his youth.
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