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January 13, 2020 | Episode 78

Making Apache Kafka Connectors for the Cloud ft. Magesh Nandakumar

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From previously focusing on Confluent Schema Registry to now making connectors for Confluent Cloud, Magesh Nandakumar (Software Engineer, Confluent) discusses what connectors do, how they simplify data integrations, and how they enable sophisticated customer use cases. With connectors built for Confluent Cloud on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), this helps users implement Apache Kafka® within their existing systems in an easy way. There’s a lot that Magesh is looking forward to when the world of connectors and the world of cloud collide.

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