Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov

Multi-Region Clusters improve high availability in Apache Kafka®, ensure cluster replication across multiple zones, and help with disaster recovery. Making sure users are successful in every area of their Kafka deployment, be it operations or application development for specific use cases, is what Anna McDonald (Team Lead Customer Success Technical Architect) and Mitch Henderson (Principal Customer Success Technical Architect) are passionate about here at Confluent.In this episode, they share common challenges that users often run into with Multi-Region Clusters, uses cases for them, and what to keep in mind when considering replication. Anna and Mitch also discuss consuming from followers, auto client failover, and offset issues to be aware of.EPISODE LINKSKafka Screams: The Scariest JIRAs and How to Survive Them ft. Anna McDonaldDeploying Confluent Platform, from Zero to Hero ft. Mitch HendersonJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

All Confluent developer advocates...assemble! COVID-19 has changed the face of meetings and events, halting all in-person gatherings and forcing companies to adapt on the fly. In today's episode of Streaming Audio, the developer advocates come together to discuss how their jobs have changed during the worldwide pandemic. Less than a year ago, this group was constantly on the road or in a plane on their way to present something new about Apache Kafka and event streaming, so how has the current climate affected their work? The group talks about Zoom fatigue, online presenting, online conferences/meetups, and of course, Kafka Summit 2020. EPISODE LINKSGrowing the Event Streaming Community During COVID-19 ft. Ale MurrayRegister for Kafka Summit 2020Join the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Apache Kafka® 2.6 is out! This release includes progress toward removing ZooKeeper dependency, adding client quota APIs to the admin client, and exposing disk read and write metrics, and support for Java 14. In addition, there are improvements to Kafka Connect, such as allowing source connectors to set topic-specific settings for new topics and expanding Connect worker internal topic settings. Kafka 2.6 also augments metrics for Kafka Streams and adds emit-on-change support for Kafka Streams, as well as other updates. EPISODE LINKSWatch the video version of this podcastRead about what's new in Apache Kafka 2.6Join the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent) returns to Streaming Audio to explain the magic of ksqlDB, ideal testing environments for ksqlDB, and the ksqlDB test runner. For those who are just starting to explore the interface, Viktor provides some tips and best practices for what to look out for too. He also talks about the future of ksqlDB, the future of integration testing, and his favorite new feature among recent upgrades.EPISODE LINKSStreaming Audio episodes on ksqlDBWatch #LiveStreams with Viktor Gamov I Don't Always Test My StreamsJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

As developers, we are good at envisioning the future state of any given system we want to build, but are we as good at telling the business how those changes positively impact the bottom line? Lyndon Hedderly (Team Lead, Business Value Consulting, Confluent) describes his approach to business value, how to justify a new technology that you’re introducing to your company, and tips on adopting new technologies and processes effectively. As Lyndon walks through each part of the business value framework: (1) baseline, (2) target state, (3) quantified benefits, (4) unquantified benefits, and (5) proof points, you’ll learn about cost effectiveness with Confluent Cloud, how to measure ROI vs. TCO, and a retail example from a customer that details their implementation of an event streaming platform.EPISODE LINKSMeasuring the Cost Effectiveness of Confluent Cloud Measuring TCO: Apache Kafka vs. Confluent Cloud’s Managed Service Get a Free TCO AssessmentJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Inventory management systems are crucial for reducing real-time inventory data drift, improving customer experience, and minimizing out-of-stock events. Apache Kafka®’s real-time data technology provides seamless inventory tracking at scale, saving billions of dollars in the supply chain, making modernized data architectures more important to retailers now more than ever.  In this episode, we’ll discuss how Apache Kafka allows the implementation of stateful event streaming architectures on a cloud-native platform for application and architecture modernization. Sina Sojoodi (Global CTO, Data and Architecture, VMware) and Rohit Kelapure (Principal Advisor, VMware) will discuss data modeling, as well as the architecture design needed to achieve data consistency and correctness while handling the scale and resilience needs of a major retailer in near real time. The implemented solution utilizes Spring Boot, Kafka Streams, and Apache Cassandra, and they explain the process of using several services to write to Cassandra instead of trying to use Kafka as a distributed log for enforcing consistency.  EPISODE LINKSHow to Run Kafka Streams on Kubernetes ft. Viktor GamovMachine Learning with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB ft. Kai WaehnerUnderstand What’s Flying Above You with Kafka Streams ft. Neil BuesingJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Apache Kafka® Committer and PMC member Matthias J. Sax explains fault tolerance, high-availability stream processing, and how it’s done in Kafka Streams. He discusses the differences between changelogging vs. checkpointing and the complexities checkpointing introduces. From there, Matthias explains what hot standbys are and how they are used in Kafka Streams, why Kafka Streams doesn’t do watermarking, and finally, why Kafka Streams is a library and not infrastructure. EPISODE LINKSAsk Confluent #7: Kafka Consumers and Streams Failover Explained ft. Matthias SaxAsk Confluent #8: Guozhang Wang on Kafka Streams Standby TasksHow to Run Kafka Streams on Kubernetes ft. Viktor GamovKafka Streams Interactive Queries Go Prime TimeHighly Available, Fault-Tolerant Pull Queries in ksqlDBKIP-535: Allow state stores to serve stale reads during rebalanceKIP-562: Allow fetching a key from a single partition rather than iterating over all the stores on an instanceKIP-441: Smooth Scaling Out for Kafka Streams Skip to end of metadataJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Real-time stock trades, GPS location, and website click tracking are just a few industries that heavily rely on Apache Kafka®'s real-time messaging and data delivery functions. As such, Kafka's latency is incredibly important.Anna Povzner (Software Engineer, Confluent) gives you the breakdown and everything you need to know when it comes to measuring latency. The five components of latency are produce time, publish time, commit time, catch-up time, and fetch time. When consumer pulling adds to latency, Anna shares some best practices to keep in mind for how to think about partitioning in conjunction with latency. She also discusses client configuration in the cloud, interesting problems she's helped solve for customers, and her top two tips for debugging latency. EPISODE LINKS99th Percentile Latency at Scale with Apache KafkaBenchmark Your Dedicated Apache Kafka Cluster on Confluent CloudDistributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Gwen ShapiraJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

What started out as a consulting company, Camunda eventually turned into a developer-friendly, open source vendor that now focuses on workflow automation. Bernd Ruecker, a co-founder and the chief technologist at Camunda, talks through the company's journey, how he ended up in open source, and all things automation, including how it differs from business process management and the issue of diagrams. Bernd also dives into dead letter topics in Apache Kafka®, software interacting with software, orchestration tension, and best practices for approaching challenges that pop up along the way. This episode will take you through a thorough introduction of Camunda Cloud, a cloud-native workflow engine, as well as Camunda’s Kafka connector. EPISODE LINKSJay Kreps, Confluent | Kafka Summit SF 2019 Keynote ft. Dev Tagare, Lyftzeebe.ioJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

We've all been affected by COVID-19 in one way or another, resulting in big changes in workplace functionality, productivity, and even our relationships within the Apache Kafka® and Confluent communities as meetings and events have needed to turn virtual. Ale Murray (Global Community Manager, Confluent) shares interesting trends, changes in community metrics, and what we’ve done to adapt as a response. Ale also explains what makes a comprehensive community program and the value of community meetups in light of the pandemic. Despite how much we miss in-person interactions, by digitizing events and focusing on the community, we saw great growth in attendance and engagement across our Slack community, online hackathons, MVP program, and online meetups over the last couple of months, proving that nothing can stop this amazing community from thriving.EPISODE LINKSGet involved with the Confluent CommunityJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage*SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes. 👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.