Streaming Audio: A Confluent Podcast about Apache Kafka
Listen to Tim Berglund and guests unpack a variety of topics surrounding Apache Kafka®, Confluent, real-time data streaming, and the cloud.
Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Colin McCabe
Colin McCabe shares about what it’s like being a distributed systems engineer, how it differs from being a full stack engineer, and the importance of open source community involvement.
Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, and ZooKeeper with Lena Hall
Lena Hall joins Tim Berglund in the studio to talk about Apache Kafka, the various ways to run Kafka on Microsoft Azure, Kafka on Kubernetes (K8s), and some exciting events that are happening in the Kafka world.
Improving Fairness Through Connection Throttling in the Cloud with KIP-402 ft. Gwen Shapira
Gwen Shapira outlines KIP-402, which aims to improve fairness in how Apache Kafka® processes connections and how network threads pick up requests and new data. She also shares about her team’s efforts to make user-facing Kafka improvements.
Data Modeling for Apache Kafka – Streams, Topics & More with Dani Traphagen
When it comes to data modeling, Dani Traphagen covers importance business requirements, including the need for a domain model, practicing domain-driven design principles, and bounded context. She also discusses the attributes of data modeling: time, source, key, header, metadata, and payload, in addition to exploring the significance of data governance and lineage and performing joins.
MySQL, Cassandra, BigQuery, and Streaming Analytics with Joy Gao
Joy Gao chats with Tim Berglund about all things related to streaming ETL—how it works, its benefits, and the implementation and operational challenges involved. She describes the streaming ETL architecture at WePay from MySQL/Cassandra to BigQuery using Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, and Debezium.
Meet your host
Tim Berglund
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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