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Episode 143February 10, 2021 | 9 min

Confluent Platform 6.1 | What’s New in This Release + Updates

Confluent Platform 6.1 further simplifies management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators. Based on Apache Kafka 2.7, this release provides even higher availability for enterprises who are using Kafka as the central backbone for their business-critical applications.

Episode 121October 1, 2020 | 14 min

Confluent Platform 6.0 | What's New in This Release + Updates

The release of Confluent Platform 6.0, based on Apache Kafka 2.6, introduces Tiered Storage, Self-Balancing Clusters, ksqlDB 0.10, Admin REST APIs, and Cluster Linking in preview.

Episode 115August 17, 2020 | 43 min

Disaster Recovery with Multi-Region Clusters in Confluent Platform ft. Anna McDonald and Mitch Henderson

Multi-Region Clusters improve high availability in Apache Kafka® and ensure cluster replication across multiple zones. In this episode, Anna McDonald and Mitch Henderson share common challenges that users often run into with Multi-Region Clusters, what causes them, and what to keep in mind when considering replication.

Episode 103June 1, 2020 | 40 min

Introducing JSON and Protobuf Support ft. David Araujo and Tushar Thole

Confluent Platform 5.5 introduces long-awaited JSON Schema and Protobuf support in Confluent Schema Registry and across other platform components.

Episode 96April 24, 2020 | 11 min

Confluent Platform 5.5 | What's New in This Release + Updates

Confluent Platform 5.5 is out! This release includes improved schema management, Schema Registry support for Protobuf and JSON, better support for languages other than Java within the sphere of librdkafka, and an upgrade to ksqlDB.

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