Confluent and Kafka with Viktor Gamov

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Nov 14, 2018

Viktor Gamov, a Developer Advocate at Confluent, joins Mark and special guest host Michelle to discuss Kafka's real-time data streaming capabilities and how Confluent helps connect with cloud platforms like Google Cloud. They also answer a question about Next 2019 and share tips for writing effective conference abstracts.

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Kafka: A Unique Platform

Kafka is a unique streaming platform in distributed systems.
It acts as a message queue and database hybrid, enabling real-time data consumption and processing.

ANECDOTE

Kafka's Origin

Kafka was initially developed at LinkedIn to speed up data ingestion into Hadoop.
It shifted from batch-oriented pipelines to real-time stream processing.

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Kafka's Data Structure

Kafka uses an append-only log data structure, enabling fast writes and sequential reads.
This structure, similar to messaging queues, makes Kafka suitable for messaging use cases.

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Viktor Gamov is on the podcast today to discuss Confluent and Kafka with Mark and special first-time guest host, Michelle. Viktor spends time with Mark and Melanie explaining how Kafka allows you to stream and process data in real-time, and how Kafka helps Confluent with its advanced streaming capabilities. Confluent Cloud helps connect Confluent and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud so customers don’t have to manage anything - Confluent takes care of it for you!

To wrap up the show, Michelle answers our question of the week about Next 2019.

Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. Working in the field, Viktor developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping different organizations design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available distributed systems.

Back in his consultancy days, he co-authored O’Reilly’s «Enterprise Web Development».

He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, Java, and JavaScript topics, and is a regular at events, including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He blogs and produces the podcasts Razbor Poletov (in Russian) and co-hosts DevRelRad.io.

Follow Viktor on Twitter, where he posts about gym life, food, open source, and, of course, Kafka and Confluent!

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Containerd available for beta testing in Google Kubernetes Engine blog
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Interview

Kafka site
Kafka Connect site
Kafka Streams site
KSQL site
Confluent site
Confluent Hub site
Confluent Schema Registry site
Confluent Cloud on Google Cloud Marketplace site
Confluent Enterprise site
Confluent Cloud site
Confluent on Github site
Confluent Blog blog
How to choose the number of topics/partitions in a Kafka cluster? blog
Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times blog
Google Cloud Platform and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kafka service blog
Viktor’s Presentations site
Confluent Community site

Question of the week

If I wanted to submit a CFP for Next 2019, how would I do it?

Where can you find us next?

Mark and Michelle will be at KubeCon in December.

Michelle will be at Scale by the Bay on Friday. She’ll also be at YOW! Sydney, Brisbane, & Melbourne in Nov & December.