Streaming Audio: Apache Kafka® & Real-Time Data
292 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsStreaming Audio features all things Apache Kafka®, Confluent, real-time data, and the cloud. We cover frequently asked questions, best practices, and use cases from the Kafka community—from Kafka connectors and distributed systems, to data mesh, data integration, modern data architectures, and data mesh built with Confluent and cloud Kafka as a service. Join our hosts as they stream through a series of interviews, stories, and use cases with guests from the data streaming industry. Apache®️, Apache Kafka, Kafka, and the Kafka logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by The Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks.
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Apache Kafka 3.5 - Kafka Core, Connect, Streams, & Client Updates
June 15, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes - 7.88 MBApache Kafka® 3.5 is here with the capability of previewing migrations between ZooKeeper clusters to KRaft mode. Follow along as Danica Fine highlights key release updates. Kafka Core: KIP-833 provides an updated timeline for KRaft. KIP-866 now is preview and allows migration from an existing ZooKeeper cluster to KRaft mode. KIP-900 introduces a way to bootstrap the KRaft controllers with SCRAM credentials. KIP-903 prevents a data loss scenario by preventing replicas with stale broker e...
A Special Announcement from Streaming Audio
April 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 minute - 958 KBAfter recording 64 episodes and featuring 58 amazing guests, the Streaming Audio podcast series has amassed over 130,000 plays on YouTube in the last year. We're extremely proud of these achievements and feel that it's time to take a well-deserved break. Streaming Audio will be taking a vacation! We want to express our gratitude to you, our valued listeners, for spending 10,000 hours with us on this incredible journey. Rest assured, we will be back with more episodes! In the meantime, feel ...
How to use Data Contracts for Long-Term Schema Management
March 21, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBHave you ever struggled with managing data long term, especially as the schema changes over time? In order to manage and leverage data across an organization, it’s essential to have well-defined guidelines and standards in place around data quality, enforcement, and data transfer. To get started, Abraham Leal (Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent) suggests that organizations associate their Apache Kafka® data with a data contract (schema). A data contract is an agreement between a...
How to use Python with Apache Kafka
March 14, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBCan you use Apache Kafka® and Python together? What’s the current state of Python support? And what are the best options to get started? In this episode, Dave Klein joins Kris to talk about all things Kafka and Python: the libraries, the tools, and the pros & cons. He also talks about the new course he just launched to support Python programmers entering the event-streaming world. Dave has been an active member of the Kafka community for many years and noticed that there were a lot of Kafka...
Next-Gen Data Modeling, Integrity, and Governance with YODA
March 07, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this episode, Kris interviews Doron Porat, Director of Infrastructure at Yotpo, and Liran Yogev, Director of Engineering at ZipRecruiter (formerly at Yotpo), about their experiences and strategies in dealing with data modeling at scale. Yotpo has a vast and active data lake, comprising thousands of datasets that are processed by different engines, primarily Apache Spark™. They wanted to provide users with self-service tools for generating and utilizing data with maximum flexibility, but ...
Migrate Your Kafka Cluster with Minimal Downtime
March 01, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBMigrating Apache Kafka® clusters can be challenging, especially when moving large amounts of data while minimizing downtime. Michael Dunn (Solutions Architect, Confluent) has worked in the data space for many years, designing and managing systems to support high-volume applications. He has helped many organizations strategize, design, and implement successful Kafka cluster migrations between different environments. In this episode, Michael shares some tips about Kafka cluster migration with ...
Real-Time Data Transformation and Analytics with dbt Labs
February 22, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBdbt is known as being part of the Modern Data Stack for ELT processes. Being in the MDS, dbt Labs believes in having the best of breed for every part of the stack. Oftentimes folks are using an EL tool like Fivetran to pull data from the database into the warehouse, then using dbt to manage the transformations in the warehouse. Analysts can then build dashboards on top of that data, or execute tests. It’s possible for an analyst to adapt this process for use with a microservice application ...
What is the Future of Streaming Data?
February 15, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBWhat’s the next big thing in the future of streaming data? In this episode, Greg DeMichillie (VP of Product and Solutions Marketing, Confluent) talks to Kris about the future of stream processing in environments where the value of data lies in their ability to intercept and interpret data. Greg explains that organizations typically focus on the infrastructure containers themselves, and not on the thousands of data connections that form within. When they finally realize that they don't have ...
What can Apache Kafka Developers learn from Online Gaming?
February 08, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBWhat can online gaming teach us about making large-scale event management more collaborative in real-time? Ben Gamble (Developer Relations Manager, Aiven) has come to the world of real-time event streaming from an usual source: the video games industry. And if you stop to think about it, modern online games are complex, distributed real-time data systems with decades of innovative techniques to teach us. In this episode, Ben talks with Kris about integrating gaming concepts with Apache Kaf...
Apache Kafka 3.4 - New Features & Improvements
February 07, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes - 3.63 MBApache Kafka® 3.4 is released! In this special episode, Danica Fine (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent), shares highlights of the Apache Kafka 3.4 release. This release introduces new KIPs in Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect. In Kafka Core: KIP-792 expands the metadata each group member passes to the group leader in its JoinGroup subscription to include the highest stable generation that consumer was a part of. KIP-830 includes a new configuration setting that allows you t...
How to use OpenTelemetry to Trace and Monitor Apache Kafka Systems
February 01, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBHow can you use OpenTelemetry to gain insight into your Apache Kafka® event systems? Roman Kolesnev, Staff Customer Innovation Engineer at Confluent, is a member of the Customer Solutions & Innovation Division Labs team working to build business-critical OpenTelemetry applications so companies can see what’s happening inside their data pipelines. In this episode, Roman joins Kris to discuss tracing and monitoring in distributed systems using OpenTelemetry. He talks about how monitoring each ...
What is Data Democratization and Why is it Important?
January 26, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBData democratization allows everyone in an organization to have access to the data they need, and the necessary tools needed to use this data effectively. In short, data democratization enables better business decisions. In this episode, Rama Ryali, a Senior IT and Data Executive, chats with Kris Jenkins about the importance of data democratization in modern systems. Rama explains that tech has unprecedented control over data and ignores basic business needs. Tech’s influence has largely ...
Git for Data: Managing Data like Code with lakeFS
January 19, 2023 08:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBIs it possible to manage and test data like code? lakeFS is an open-source data version control tool that transforms object storage into Git-like repositories, offering teams a way to use the same workflows for code and data. In this episode, Kris sits down with guest Adi Polak, VP of DevX at Treeverse, to discuss how lakeFS can be used to facilitate better management and testing of data. At its core, lakeFS provides teams with better data management. A theoretical data engineer on a large ...
Using Kafka-Leader-Election to Improve Scalability and Performance
January 12, 2023 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBHow does leader election work in Apache Kafka®? For the past 2 ½ years, Adithya Chandra, Staff Software Engineer at Confluent, has been working on Kafka scalability and performance, specifically partition leader election. In this episode, he gives Kris Jenkins a deep dive into the power of leader election in Kafka replication, why we need it, how it works, what can go wrong, and how it's being improved. Adithya explains that you can configure a certain number of replicas to be distributed a...
Real-Time Machine Learning and Smarter AI with Data Streaming
January 05, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBAre bad customer experiences really just data integration problems? Can real-time data streaming and machine learning be democratized in order to deliver a better customer experience? Airy, an open-source data-streaming platform, uses Apache Kafka® to help business teams deliver better results to their customers. In this episode, Airy CEO and co-founder Steffen Hoellinger explains how his company is expanding the reach of stream-processing tools and ideas beyond the world of programmers. Ai...
The Present and Future of Stream Processing
December 28, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBThe past year saw new trends emerge in the world of data streaming technologies, as well as some unexpected and novel use cases for Apache Kafka®. New reflections on the future of stream processing and when companies should adopt microservice architecture inspired several talks at this year’s industry conferences. In this episode, Kris is joined by his colleagues Danica Fine, Senior Developer Advocate, and Robin Moffatt, Principal Developer Advocate, for an end-of-year roundtable on this yea...
Top 6 Worst Apache Kafka JIRA Bugs
December 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBEntomophiliac, Anna McDonald (Principal Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent) has seen her fair share of Apache Kafka® bugs. For her annual holiday roundup of the most noteworthy Kafka bugs, Anna tells Kris Jenkins about some of the scariest, most surprising, and most enlightening corner cases that make you ask, “Ah, so that’s how it really works?” She shares a lot of interesting details about how batching works, the replication protocol, how Kafka’s networking stack dances with ...
Learn How Stream-Processing Works The Simplest Way Possible
December 20, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBCould you explain Apache Kafka® in ways that a small child could understand? When Mitch Seymour, author of Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, wanted a way to communicate the basics of Kafka and event-based stream processing, he decided to author a children’s book on the subject, but it turned into something with a far broader appeal. Mitch conceived the idea while writing a traditional manuscript for engineers and technicians interested in building stream processing applications. He wished...
Building and Designing Events and Event Streams with Apache Kafka
December 15, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBWhat are the key factors to consider when developing event-driven architecture? When properly designed, events can connect existing systems with a common language and allow data exchange in near real time. They also help reduce complexity by providing a single source of truth that eliminates the need to synchronize data between different services or applications. They enable dynamic behavior, allowing each service or application to respond quickly to changes in its environment. Using events,...
Rethinking Apache Kafka Security and Account Management
December 08, 2022 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBIs there a better way to manage access to resources without compromising security? New employees need access to a variety of resources within a company's tech stack. But manually granting access can be error-prone. And when employees leave, their access must be revoked, thus potentially introducing security risks if an admin misses one. In this podcast, Kris Jenkins talks to Anuj Sawani (Security Product Manager, Confluent) about the centralized identity management system he helped build to ...
Real-time Threat Detection Using Machine Learning and Apache Kafka
November 29, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBCan we use machine learning to detect security threats in real-time? As organizations increasingly rely on distributed systems, it is becoming more important to analyze the traffic that passes through those systems quickly. Confluent Hackathon ’22 finalist, Géraud Dugé de Bernonville (Data Consultant, Zenika Bordeaux), shares how his team used TensorFlow (machine learning) and Neo4j (graph database) to analyze and detect network traffic data in real-time. What started as a research and devel...
Improving Apache Kafka Scalability and Elasticity with Tiered Storage
November 22, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWhat happens when you need to store more than a few petabytes of data? Rittika Adhikari (Software Engineer, Confluent) discusses how her team implemented tiered storage, a method for improving the scalability and elasticity of data storage in Apache Kafka®. She also explores the motivating factors for building it in the first place: cost, performance, and manageability. Before Tiered Storage, there was no real way to retain Kafka data indefinitely. Because of the tight coupling between com...
Improving Kafka Scalability and Elasticity with Tiered Storage
November 22, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWhat happens when you need to store more than a few petabytes of data? Rittika Adhikari (Software Engineer, Confluent) discusses how her team implemented tiered storage, a method for improving the scalability and elasticity of data storage in Apache Kafka®. She also explores the motivating factors for building it in the first place: cost, performance, and manageability. Before Tiered Storage, there was no real way to retain Kafka data indefinitely. Because of the tight coupling between com...
Decoupling with Event-Driven Architecture
November 15, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBIn principle, data mesh architecture should liberate teams to build their systems and gather data in a distributed way, without having to explicitly coordinate. Data is the thing that can and should decouple teams, but proper implementation has its challenges. In this episode, Kris talks to Florian Albrecht (Solution Architect, Hermes Germany) about Galapagos, an open-source DevOps software tool for Apache Kafka® that Albrecht created with his team at Hermes, a German parcel delivery compan...
If Streaming Is the Answer, Why Are We Still Doing Batch?
November 09, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBIs real-time data streaming the future, or will batch processing always be with us? Interest in streaming data architecture is booming, but just as many teams are still happily batching away. Batch processing is still simpler to implement than stream processing, and successfully moving from batch to streaming requires a significant change to a team’s habits and processes, as well as a meaningful upfront investment. Some are even running dbt in micro batches to simulate an effect similar to s...
Security for Real-Time Data Stream Processing with Confluent Cloud
November 03, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBStreaming real-time data at scale and processing it efficiently is critical to cybersecurity organizations like SecurityScorecard. Jared Smith, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence, and Brandon Brown, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform at SecurityScorecard, discuss their journey from using RabbitMQ to open-source Apache Kafka® for stream processing. As well as why turning to fully-managed Kafka on Confluent Cloud is the right choice for building real-time data pipelines at scale...
Running Apache Kafka in Production
October 27, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBWhat are some recommendations to consider when running Apache Kafka® in production? Jun Rao, one of the original Kafka creators, as well as an ongoing committer and PMC member, shares the essential wisdom he's gained from developing Kafka and dealing with a large number of Kafka use cases. Here are 6 recommendations for maximizing Kafka in production: 1. Nail Down the Operational Part When setting up your cluster, in addition to dealing with the usual architectural issues, make sure to als...
Build a Real Time AI Data Platform with Apache Kafka
October 20, 2022 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBIs it possible to build a real-time data platform without using stateful stream processing? Forecasty.ai is an artificial intelligence platform for forecasting commodity prices, imparting insights into the future valuations of raw materials for users. Nearly all AI models are batch-trained once, but precious commodities are linked to ever-fluctuating global financial markets, which require real-time insights. In this episode, Ralph Debusmann (CTO, Forecasty.ai) shares their journey of migrat...
Optimizing Apache JVMs for Apache Kafka
October 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBJava Virtual Machines (JVMs) impact Apache Kafka® performance in production. How can you optimize your event-streaming architectures so they process more Kafka messages using the same number of JVMs? Gil Tene (CTO and Co-Founder, Azul) delves into JVM internals and how developers and architects can use Java and optimized JVMs to make real-time data pipelines more performant and more cost effective, with use cases. Gil has deep roots in Java optimization, having started out building large da...
Apache Kafka 3.3 - KRaft, Kafka Core, Streams, & Connect Updates
October 03, 2022 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.65 MBApache Kafka® 3.3 is released! With over two years of development, KIP-833 marks KRaft as production ready for new AK 3.3 clusters only. On behalf of the Kafka community, Danica Fine (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent) shares highlights of this release, with KIPs from Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect. To reduce request overhead and simplify client-side code, KIP-709 extends the OffsetFetch API requests to accept multiple consumer group IDs. This update has three changes, inc...
Application Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Swim
October 03, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBHow do you set data applications in motion by running stateful business logic on streaming data? Capturing key stream processing events and cumulative statistics that necessitate real-time data assessment, migration, and visualization remains as a gap—for event-driven systems and stream processing frameworks according to Fred Patton (Developer Evangelist, Swim Inc.) In this episode, Fred explains streaming applications and how it contrasts with stream processing applications. Fred and Kris a...
International Podcast Day - Apache Kafka Edition | Streaming Audio Special
September 30, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBWhat’s your favorite podcast? Would you like to find some new ones? In celebration of International Podcast Day, Kris Jenkins invites 12 experts from the Apache Kafka® community to talk about their favorite podcasts. Unlike other episodes where guests educate developers and tell stories about Kafka, its surrounding technological ecosystem, or the Cloud, this special episode provides a glimpse into what these guests have learned through listening to podcasts that you might also find interesti...
How to Build a Reactive Event Streaming App - Coding in Motion
September 20, 2022 07:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MBHow do you build an event-driven application that can react to real-time data streams as they happen? Kris Jenkins (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent) will be hosting another fun, hands-on programming workshop—Coding in Motion: Watching the River Flow, to demonstrate how you can build a reactive event streaming application with Apache Kafka®, ksqlDB using Python. As a developer advocate, Kris often speaks at conferences, and the presentation will be available on-demand through the organi...
Real-Time Stream Processing, Monitoring, and Analytics With Apache Kafka
September 15, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBProcessing real-time event streams enables countless use cases big and small. With a day job designing and building highly available distributed data systems, Simon Aubury (Principal Data Engineer, Thoughtworks) believes stream-processing thinking can be applied to any stream of events. In this episode, Simon shares his Confluent Hackathon ’22 winning project—a wildlife monitoring system to observe population trends over time using a Raspberry Pi, along with Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, k...
Reddit Sentiment Analysis with Apache Kafka-Based Microservices
September 08, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBHow do you analyze Reddit sentiment with Apache Kafka® and microservices? Bringing the fresh perspective of someone who is both new to Kafka and the industry, Shufan Liu, nascent Developer Advocate at Confluent, discusses projects he has worked on during his summer internship—a Cluster Linking extension to a conceptual data pipeline project, and a microservice-based Reddit sentiment-analysis project. Shufan demonstrates that it’s possible to quickly get up to speed with the tools in the Kafk...
Capacity Planning Your Apache Kafka Cluster
August 30, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBHow do you plan Apache Kafka® capacity and Kafka Streams sizing for optimal performance? When Jason Bell (Principal Engineer, Dataworks and founder of Synthetica Data), begins to plan a Kafka cluster, he starts with a deep inspection of the customer's data itself—determining its volume as well as its contents: Is it JSON, straight pieces of text, or images? He then determines if Kafka is a good fit for the project overall, a decision he bases on volume, the desired architecture, as well as...
Streaming Real-Time Sporting Analytics for World Table Tennis
August 25, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBReimagining a data architecture to provide real-time data flow for sporting events can be complicated, especially for organizations with as much data as World Table Tennis (WTT). Vatsan Rama (Director of IT, ITTF Group) shares why real-time data is essential in the sporting world and how his team reengineered their data system in 18 months, moving from a solely on-premises infrastructure to a cloud-native data system that uses Confluent Cloud with Apache Kafka® as its central nervous system....
Real-Time Event Distribution with Data Mesh
August 18, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBInheriting software in the banking sector can be challenging. Perhaps the only thing harder is inheriting software built by a committee of banks. How do you keep it running, while improving it, refactoring it, and planning a bigger future for it? In this episode, Jean-Francois Garet (Technical Architect, Symphony) shares his experience at Symphony as he helps it evolve from an inherited, monolithic, single-tenant architecture to an event mesh for seamless event-streaming microservices. He ta...
Apache Kafka Security Best Practices
August 11, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBSecurity is a primary consideration for any system design, and Apache Kafka® is no exception. Out of the box, Kafka has relatively little security enabled. Rajini Sivaram (Principal Engineer, Confluent, and co-author of “Kafka: The Definitive Guide” ) discusses how Kafka has gone from a system that included no security to providing an extensible and flexible platform for any business to build a secure messaging system. She shares considerations, important best practices, and features Kafka p...
What Could Go Wrong with a Kafka JDBC Connector?
August 04, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBJava Database Connectivity (JDBC) is the Java API used to connect to a database. As one of the most popular Kafka connectors, it's important to prevent issues with your integrations. In this episode, we'll cover how a JDBC connection works, and common issues with your database connection. Why the Kafka JDBC Connector? When it comes to streaming database events into Apache Kafka®, the JDBC connector usually represents the first choice for its flexibility and the ability to support a wid...
Apache Kafka Networking with Confluent Cloud
July 28, 2022 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSetting up a reliable cloud networking for your Apache Kafka® infrastructure can be complex. There are many factors to consider—cost, security, scalability, and availability. With immense experience building cloud-native Kafka solutions on Confluent Cloud, Justin Lee (Principal Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Solutions Engineering, Confluent) and Dennis Wittekind (Customer Success Technical Architect, Customer Success Engineering, Confluent) talk about the different networking options on Conf...
Event-Driven Systems and Agile Operations
July 21, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBHow do the principles of chaotic, agile operations in the military apply to software development and event-driven systems? As a former Royal Marine, Ben Ford (Founder and CEO, Commando Development) is also a software developer, with many years of experience building event streaming architectures across financial services and startups. He shares principles that the military employs in chaotic conditions as well as how these can be applied to event-streaming and agile development. According t...
Streaming Analytics and Real-Time Signal Processing with Apache Kafka
July 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBImagine you can process and analyze real-time event streams for intelligence to mitigate cyber threats or keep soldiers constantly alerted to risks and precautions they should take based on events. In this episode, Jeffrey Needham (Senior Solutions Engineer, Advanced Technology Group, Confluent) shares use cases on how Apache Kafka® can be used for real-time signal processing to mitigate risk before it arises. He also explains the classic Kafka transactional processing defaults and the disti...
Blockchain Data Integration with Apache Kafka
July 07, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes - 35.1 MBHow is Apache Kafka® relevant to blockchain technology and cryptocurrency? Fotios Filacouris (Staff Solutions Engineer, Confluent) has been working with Kafka for close to five years, primarily designing architectural solutions for financial services, he also has expertise in the blockchain. In this episode, he joins Kris to discuss how blockchain and Kafka are complementary, and he also highlights some of the use cases he has seen emerging that use Kafka in conjunction with traditional, dis...
Automating Multi-Cloud Apache Kafka Cluster Rollouts
June 30, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBTo ensure safe and efficient deployment of Apache Kafka® clusters across multiple cloud providers, Confluent rolled out a large scale cluster management solution. Rashmi Prabhu (Staff Software Engineer & Eng Manager, Fleet Management Platform, Confluent) and her team have been building the Fleet Management Platform for Confluent Cloud. In this episode, she delves into what Fleet Management is, and how the cluster management service streamlines Kafka operations in the cloud while providing a...
Common Apache Kafka Mistakes to Avoid
June 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBWhat are some of the common mistakes that you have seen with Apache Kafka® record production and consumption? Nikoleta Verbeck (Principal Solutions Architect at Professional Services, Confluent) has a role that specifically tasks her with performance tuning as well as troubleshooting Kafka installations of all kinds. Based on her field experience, she put together a comprehensive list of common issues with recommendations for building, maintaining, and improving Kafka systems that are applic...
Tips For Writing Abstracts and Speaking at Conferences
June 16, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBA well-written abstract is your ticket to conferences, but how do you write an excellent synopsis that will get accepted? As an experienced conference speaker, Robin Moffatt (Principal Developer Advocate, Confluent) often writes presentations that help the developer community to understand Apache Kafka® and its ecosystem. He is also the Program Committee Chair for Kafka Summit and Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit. Having seen hundreds of conference submissions, Robin shares ...
How I Became a Developer Advocate
June 09, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBWhat is a developer advocate and how do you become one? In this episode, we have seasoned developer advocates, Kris Jenkins (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent) and Danica Fine (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent) answer the question by diving into how they got into the world of developer relations, what they enjoyed the most about their roles, and how you can become one. Developer advocacy is at the heart of a developer community—helping developers and software engineers to get the mos...
Data Mesh Architecture: A Modern Distributed Data Model
June 02, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBData mesh isn’t software you can download and install, so how do you build a data mesh? In this episode, Adam Bellemare (Staff Technologist, Office of the CTO, Confluent) discusses his data mesh proof of concept and how it can help you conceptualize the ways in which implementing a data mesh could benefit your organization. Adam begins by noting that while data mesh is a type of modern data architecture, it is only partially a technical issue. For instance, it encompasses the best way to en...
Data Mesh Architecture: A Modern Distributed Data Model
June 02, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBData mesh isn’t software you can download and install, so how do you build a data mesh? In this episode, Adam Bellemare (Staff Technologist, Office of the CTO, Confluent) discusses his data mesh proof of concept and how it can help you conceptualize the ways in which implementing a data mesh could benefit your organization. Adam begins by noting that while data mesh is a type of modern data architecture, it is only partially a technical issue. For instance, it encompasses the best way to en...