It’s Halloween again, which means Anna McDonald (Staff Technical Account Manager, Confluent) is back for another spooktacular episode of Streaming Audio.

In this episode, Anna shares six of the most spine-chilling, hair-raising  Apache Kafka® JIRAs from the past year. Her job is to help hunt down problems like these and dig up skeletons like: 

Early death causes epoch time travelAttack of the clonesMissing snapshot file leads to madnessShrink inWriteLock time to avoid maiming cluster performanceOlder groups are forced to flatlineGhost segment haunts for eternity 

If JIRAs are undead monsters, Anna is practically a zombie slayer. Get a haunting taste of the horrors that she's battled with as she shares about each of these Kafka updates. Keep calm and scream on in today’s special episode of Streaming Audio!

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Kafka: A Modern Distributed SystemFrom Eager to Smarter in Apache Kafka Consumer Rebalances by Sophie Blee-GoldmanThe Magical Rebalance Protocol of Apache Kafka (Strange Loop)Join the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperLive demo: Kafka streaming in 10 minutes on Confluent CloudUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)