Ask Confluent #14: In Control of Kafka with Dan Norwood

Rishi Dhanaraj worked at Zenreach as an intern and took on a big pile of Python batch jobs, turning them into some really interesting Kafka Streams code. Listen in as he walks us through how he did it.

A quick summary of the most important features in Confluent Platform 5.3. We discuss improved Kubernetes and Ansible support, improvements to Confluent Control Center that give you better insight into the data in your cluster, and an important new set of security features—Role-Based Access Control—aimed at making complex deployments more secure.

GDPR has challenged many digital enterprises to rethink the ways how they are dealing with customer data. Viktor Gamov chats with David Jacot about a unique approach to inter-broker traffic encryption that he implemented for his customer’s sidecar pattern use case.