Kafka Streams Engineer Guozhang Wang walks through the implementation of transactional messaging in Kafka in some detail, including the idempotent producer API, the transaction coordinator responsible for managing the transaction log and consumer configurations.

Stanislav Kozlovski joins us to discuss common pitfalls when using Kafka consumers and a new KIP that promises to make consumer restarts much smoother.

In this podcast, Ben Stopford explores the event-driven paradigm and how it relates to the microservice architectures we build today. Ben dives deep into coupling, evolution and challenges of our increasingly data-oriented culture.

librdkafka has finally reached 1.0! Several important new features include the idempotent producer, sparse broker connections, support for the vaunted KIP-62 and a complete makeover for the C#/.NET client.

Do metrics for detecting clients from old versions actually exist? Or is Gwen making features up? This and more useful advice is coming up on today's episode of Ask Confluent.