Learn about connectors, how they simplify data integrations, and how they're built for Confluent Cloud for use on major cloud providers like GCP, Azure, and AWS to help implement Apache Kafka within existing systems in an easy way.

Tim Berglund invites Hans-Peter Grahsl to share about his involvement in the Apache Kafka® project, spanning from several conference contributions all the way to his open source community sink connector for MongoDB, now part of the official MongoDB Kafka connector code base.

Whenever you see an Apache Cassandra™ in the wild, you probably also see an Apache Kafka®️. In this episode, Tim Berglund and Jeff Carpenter discuss the best way to get those systems talking using the DataStax Apache Kafka Connector and build a real-time data pipeline.

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.