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Episode 40July 2, 2019 | 45 min

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Jason Gustafson

Jason Gustafson dives into the challenges of working on distributed systems, particularly when it comes to a unique system like Apache Kafka. He also discusses ways in which Confluent is working with the community to solve active problems, and what it takes to be a distributed systems engineer.

Episode 39June 25, 2019 | 13 min

Apache Kafka 2.3 | What's New in This Release + Updates and KIPs

Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Experience, Confluent) explains the Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) and what’s new in Apache Kafka 2.3.

Episode 38June 25, 2019 | 42 min

Rolling Kafka Upgrades and Confluent Cloud ft. Gwen Shapira

If you operate a Kafka cluster, hopefully you upgrade your brokers occasionally. Well, what if you have to do it with hundreds or thousands of brokers, such as you’d have to do if you were running Confluent Cloud? Today, Gwen Shapira shares some of the lessons she’s learned doing just that.

Episode 37June 18, 2019 | 32 min

Deploying Confluent Platform, from Zero to Hero ft. Mitch Henderson

Mitch Henderson explains how to plan and deploy your first application running on Confluent Platform. He covers critical factors to consider, how to make decisions about deployment solutions, how to go about setting up monitoring and testing, the marks of success, and what to do after your first project launches successfully.

Episode 36June 12, 2019 | 46 min

Why Kafka Connect? ft. Robin Moffatt

Tim and Robin cover the motivating factors for Kafka Connect, why people end up reinventing the wheel when they're not aware of it and Kafka Connect's capabilities. They also talk about the importance of schemas in Apache Kafka® pipelines and programs, and how the Confluent Schema Registry can help.

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