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

Designing a Cluster Rollout Management System for Apache Kafka ft. Twesha Modi

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As one of the top coders of her Java coding class in high school, Twesha Modi is continuing to follow her passion for computer science as a senior at ...

Apache Kafka 3.0 - Improving KRaft and an Overview of New Features

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka® 3.0 is out! To spotlight major enhancements in this release, Tim Berglund (Apache Kafka Developer Advocate) provides a summary of what’...

How to Build a Strong Developer Community with Global Engagement ft. Robin Moffatt and Ale Murray

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A developer community brings people with shared interests and purpose together. The fundamental elements of a community are to gather, learn, support,...

What Is Data Mesh, and How Does it Work? ft. Zhamak Dehghani

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The data mesh architectural paradigm shift is all about moving analytical data away from a monolithic data warehouse or data lake into a distributed a...

Multi-Cluster Apache Kafka with Cluster Linking ft. Nikhil Bhatia

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This episode was recorded when Cluster Linking was in preview mode. It’s now generally available as part of the Confluent Q3 ‘21 release on ...

Using Apache Kafka and ksqlDB for Data Replication at Bolt

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does a ride-hailing app that offers micromobility and food delivery services have to do with data in motion? In this episode, Ruslan Gibaiev (Dat...

Placing Apache Kafka at the Heart of a Data Revolution at Saxo Bank

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Monolithic applications present challenges for organizations like Saxo Bank, including difficulties when it comes to transitioning to cloud, data effi...

Advanced Stream Processing with ksqlDB ft. Michael Drogalis

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ksqlDB makes it easy to read, write, process, and transform data on Apache Kafka®, the de facto event streaming platform. With simple SQL syntax, pre...

Minimizing Software Speciation with ksqlDB and Kafka Streams ft. Mitch Seymour

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Building a large, stateful Kafka Streams application that tracks the state of each outgoing email is crucial to marketing automation tools like Mailch...

Collecting Data with a Custom SIEM System Built on Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect ft. Vitalii Rudenskyi

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The best-informed business insights that support better decision-making begin with data collection, ahead of data processing and analytics. Enterprise...

Consistent, Complete Distributed Stream Processing ft. Guozhang Wang

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stream processing has become an important part of the big data landscape as a new programming paradigm to implement real-time data-driven applications...

Powering Real-Time Analytics with Apache Kafka and Rockset

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Using large amounts of streaming data increasingly requires interactive, real-time analytics and dashboards—and this applies to any industry, includ...

Automated Event-Driven Architectures and Microservices with Apache Kafka and SmartBear

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to have automated adoption of your event-driven architectures and microservices? The answer is yes! Alianna Inzana, product leader for ...

Data-Driven Digitalization with Apache Kafka in the Food Industry at BAADER

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Coming out of university, Patrick Neff (Data Scientist, BAADER) was used to “perfect” examples of datasets. However, he soon realized that in the ...

Chaos Engineering with Apache Kafka and Gremlin

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The most secure clusters aren’t built on the hopes that they’ll never break. They are the clusters that are broken on purpose and with a specific ...

Boosting Security for Apache Kafka with Confluent Cloud Private Link ft. Dan LaMotte

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Confluent Cloud isn’t just for public access anymore. As the requirement for security across sectors increases, so does the need for virtual private...

Confluent Platform 6.2 | What’s New in This Release + Updates

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Based on Apache Kafka® 2.8, Confluent Platform 6.2 introduces Health+, which offers intelligent alerting, cloud-based monitoring tools, and accelerat...

Adopting OpenTelemetry in Confluent and Beyond ft. Xavier Léauté

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Collecting internal, operational telemetry from Confluent Cloud services and thousands of clusters is no small feat. Stakeholders need to rely on the ...

Running Apache Kafka Efficiently on the Cloud ft. Adithya Chandra

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Focused on optimizing Apache Kafka® performance with maximized efficiency, Confluent’s Product Infrastructure team has been actively exploring oppo...

Engaging Database Partials with Apache Kafka for Distributed System Consistency ft. Pat Helland

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When compiling database reports using a variety of data from different systems, obtaining the right data when you need it in real time can be difficul...

The Truth About ZooKeeper Removal and the KIP-500 Release in Apache Kafka ft. Jason Gustafson and Colin McCabe

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Gustafson and Colin McCabe, Apache Kafka® developers, discuss the project to remove ZooKeeper—now known as the KRaft (Kafka on Raft) project....

Resilient Edge Infrastructure for IoT Using Apache Kafka ft. Kai Waehner

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the internet of things (IoT), and how does it relate to event streaming and Apache Kafka®? The deployment of Kafka outside the datacenter cre...

Data Management and Digital Transformation with Apache Kafka at Van Oord

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine if you could create a better world for future generations simply by delivering marine ingenuity. Van Oord is a Dutch family-owned company tha...

Powering Microservices Using Apache Kafka on Node.js with KafkaJS at Klarna ft. Tommy Brunn

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

At Klarna, Lead Engineer Tommy Brunn is building a runtime platform for developers. But outside of his professional role, he is also one of the author...

Apache Kafka 2.8 - ZooKeeper Removal Update (KIP-500) and Overview of Latest Features

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka 2.8 is out! This release includes early access to the long-anticipated ZooKeeper removal encapsulated in KIP-500, as well as other key up...

Connecting Azure Cosmos DB with Apache Kafka - Better Together ft. Ryan CrawCour

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When building solutions for customers in Microsoft Azure, it is not uncommon to come across customers who are deeply entrenched in the Apache Kafka® ...

Automated Cluster Operations in the Cloud ft. Rashmi Prabhu

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve heard the term “clusters,” then you might know it refers to Confluent components and features that we run in all three major cloud pro...

Resurrecting In-Sync Replicas with Automatic Observer Promotion ft. Anna McDonald

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As most developers and architects know, data always needs to be accessible no matter what happens outside of the system. This week, Tim Berglund virtu...

Building Real-Time Data Pipelines with Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and Confluent

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Processing data in real time is a process, as some might say. Angela Chu (Solution Architect, Databricks) and Caio Moreno (Senior Cloud Solution Archi...

Smooth Scaling and Uninterrupted Processing with Apache Kafka ft. Sophie Blee-Goldman

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Availability in Kafka Streams is hard, especially in the face of any changes. Any change to topic metadata or group membership triggers a rebalance. B...

Event-Driven Architecture - Common Mistakes and Valuable Lessons ft. Simon Aubury

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Event-driven architecture has taken on numerous meanings over the years—from event notification to event-carried state transfer, to event sourcing, ...

The Human Side of Apache Kafka and Microservices ft. SPOUD

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many industries depend on real-time data, requiring a range of solutions that Apache Kafka® can help solve. Samuel Benz (CTO) and Patrick Bönzli (Pr...

Gamified Fitness at Synthesis Software Technologies Using Apache Kafka and IoT

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Synthesis Software Technologies, a Confluent partner, is migrating an existing behavioral IoT framework into Kafka to streamline and normalize vendor ...

Becoming Data Driven with Apache Kafka and Stream Processing ft. Daniel Jagielski

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to adopting event-driven architectures, a couple of key considerations often arise: the way that an asynchronous core interacts with ext...

Integrating Spring Boot with Apache Kafka ft. Viktor Gamov

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent) joins Tim Berglund on this episode to talk all about Spring and Apache Kafka®. Viktor’s main focus lat...

Confluent Platform 6.1 | What’s New in This Release + Updates

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Confluent Platform 6.1 further simplifies management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators. Based on Apache Kafka 2.7, this release provides even higher ...

Building a Microservices Architecture with Apache Kafka at Nationwide Building Society ft. Rob Jackson

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nationwide Building Society, a financial institution in the United Kingdom with 137 years of history and over 18,000 employees, relies on Apache Kafka...

Examining Apache Kafka Performance Metrics ft. Alok Nikhil

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Coming up with an honest test built on open source tools in an easily documented, replicable environment for a distributed system like Apache Kafka® ...

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Guozhang Wang

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Berglund picks the brain of a distributed systems engineer, Guozhang Wang, tech lead in the Streaming department of Confluent. Guozhang explains w...

Scaling Developer Productivity with Apache Kafka ft. Mohinish Shaikh

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform run efficiently largely because of the dedication of the Developer Productivity (DevProd) team, formerly known ...

Change Data Capture and Kafka Connect on Microsoft Azure ft. Abhishek Gupta

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like being a Microsoft Azure Cloud advocate working with Apache Kafka® and change data capture (CDC) solutions? Abhishek Gupta would know...

Event Streaming Trends and Predictions for 2021 ft. Gwen Shapira, Ben Stopford, and Michael Noll

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Coming out of a whirlwind year for the event streaming world, Tim Berglund sits down with Gwen Shapira (Engineering Leader, Confluent), Ben Stopford (...

How to Become a Certified Apache Kafka Expert ft. Niamh O’Byrne and Barry Ballard

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s one thing to know how to use Apache Kafka® and another to prove it to the world that you know. Niamh O’Byrne (Certification Manager, Conflue...

Mastering DevOps with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Confluent Cloud ft. Rick Spurgeon and Allison Walther

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do you use Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud for DevOps? Integration Architects Rick Spurgeon and Allison Walther share how,...

Apache Kafka 2.7 - Overview of Latest Features, Updates, and KIPs

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka® 2.7 is here! Here are the key Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) and updates in this release, presented by Tim Berglund. KIP-497 adds ...

Choreographing the Saga Pattern in Microservices ft. Chris Richardson

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Richardson, creator of the original Cloud Foundry, maintainer of microservices.io and author of “Microservices Patterns,” discovered cloud c...

Apache Kafka and Porsche: Fast Cars and Fast Data ft. Sridhar Mamella

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We have all heard of Porsche, but did you know that Porsche utilizes event streaming with Apache Kafka®?  Today, Sridhar Mamella (Platform Manager, ...

Tales from the Frontline of Apache Kafka DevOps ft. Jason Bell

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Bell (Apache Kafka® DevOps Engineer, digitalis.io, and Author of “Machine Learning: Hands-On for Developers and Technical Professionals” ) ...

Multi-Tenancy in Apache Kafka ft. Anna Pozvner

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Multi-tenancy has been quite the topic within the Apache Kafka® community. Anna Povzner, an engineer on the Confluent team, spends most of her time w...

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Roger Hoover

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Hoover, one of the first engineers to work on Confluent Cloud, joins Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Experience, Confluent) to chat a...

Why Kafka Streams Does Not Use Watermarks ft. Matthias J. Sax

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever feel like you’re short on time? Well, good news! Confluent Software Engineer Matthias J. Sax is back to discuss how event streaming has ...

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Apurva Mehta

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What's it like being a distributed systems engineer? Apurva Mehta (Engineering Leader, Confluent) explains what attracted him to Apache Kafka®, ...

Most Terrifying Apache Kafka JIRAs of 2020 ft. Anna McDonald

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Ask Confluent #18: The Toughest Questions ft. Anna McDonald

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the first work-from-home episode of Ask Confluent, where Gwen Shapira (Core Kafka Engineering Leader, Confluent) virtually sits down with Apach...

Joining Forces with Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and Kotlin ft. Josh Long

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a language as elegant as Spring Boot is as a framework? In this episode of Streaming Audio, Tim Berglund talks w...

Building an Apache Kafka Center of Excellence Within Your Organization ft. Neil Buesing

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Buesing, an Apache Kafka® community stalwart at Object Partners, spends his days building things out of Kafka and helping others do the same. To...

Creating Your Own Kafka Improvement Proposal (KIP) as a Confluent Intern ft. Leah Thomas

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder what it's like to intern at a place like Confluent? How about working with Kafka Streams and creating your own KIP? Well, that's...

Confluent Platform 6.0 | What's New in This Release + Updates

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The feature-rich release of Confluent Platform 6.0, based on Apache Kafka® 2.6, introduces Tiered Storage, Self-Balancing Clusters, ksqlDB 0.10, Admi...

Using Event Modeling to Architect Event-Driven Information Systems ft. Bobby Calderwood

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bobby Calderwood (Founder, Evident Systems) discusses event streaming, event modeling, and event-driven architecture. He describes the emerging visual...

Using Apache Kafka as the Event-Driven System for 1,500 Microservices at Wix ft. Natan Silnitsky

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that a team of 900 developers at Wix is using Apache Kafka® to maintain 1,500 microservices? Tim Berglund sits down with Natan Silnitsky...

Top 6 Things to Know About Apache Kafka ft. Gwen Shapira

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This year, Confluent turns six! In honor of this milestone, we are taking a very special moment to celebrate with Gwen Shapira by highlighting the top...

5 Years of Event Streaming and Counting ft. Gwen Shapira, Ben Stopford, and Michael Noll

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the explosion of real-time data, Apache Kafka and event stream processing (ESP) have grown in proliferation, with event streaming technology beco...

Championing Serverless Eventing at Google Cloud ft. Jay Smith

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Smith helps Google Cloud users modernize their applications with serverless eventing. This helps them focus on their code instead of managing infr...

Disaster Recovery with Multi-Region Clusters in Confluent Platform ft. Anna McDonald and Mitch Henderson

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Multi-Region Clusters improve high availability in Apache Kafka®, ensure cluster replication across multiple zones, and help with disaster recovery. ...

Developer Advocacy (and Kafka Summit) in the Pandemic Era

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

All Confluent developer advocates...assemble! COVID-19 has changed the face of meetings and events, halting all in-person gatherings and forcing compa...

Apache Kafka 2.6 - Overview of Latest Features, Updates, and KIPs

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka® 2.6 is out! This release includes progress toward removing ZooKeeper dependency, adding client quota APIs to the admin client, and expo...

Testing ksqlDB Applications ft. Viktor Gamov

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent) returns to Streaming Audio to explain the magic of ksqlDB, ideal testing environments for ksqlDB, and the...

How to Measure the Business Value of Confluent Cloud ft. Lyndon Hedderly

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Modernizing Inventory Management Technology ft. Sina Sojoodi and Rohit Kelapure

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Inventory management systems are crucial for reducing real-time inventory data drift, improving customer experience, and minimizing out-of-stock event...

Fault Tolerance and High Availability in Kafka Streams and ksqlDB ft. Matthias J. Sax

15 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka® Committer and PMC member Matthias J. Sax explains fault tolerance, high-availability stream processing, and how it’s done in Kafka St...

Benchmarking Apache Kafka Latency at the 99th Percentile ft. Anna Povzner

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Real-time stock trades, GPS location, and website click tracking are just a few industries that heavily rely on Apache Kafka®'s real-time messag...

Open Source Workflow Automation with Apache Kafka ft. Bernd Ruecker

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What started out as a consulting company, Camunda eventually turned into a developer-friendly, open source vendor that now focuses on workflow automat...

Growing the Event Streaming Community During COVID-19 ft. Ale Murray

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We've all been affected by COVID-19 in one way or another, resulting in big changes in workplace functionality, productivity, and even our relati...

From Monolith to Microservices with Sam Newman

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author Sam Newman catches up with Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent) in the virtual studio on what microservices are, how...

Exploring Event Streaming Use Cases with µKanren ft. Tim Baldridge

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Baldridge (Senior Software Engineer, Cisco) joins us on Streaming Audio to talk about event streaming, stream processing use cases, and µKanren. ...

Introducing JSON and Protobuf Support ft. David Araujo and Tushar Thole

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Confluent Platform 5.5 introduces long-awaited JSON Schema and Protobuf support in Confluent Schema Registry and across other platform components. Su...

Scaling Apache Kafka in Retail with Microservices ft. Matt Simpson from Boden

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka® is a powerful toolset for microservice architectures. In this podcast, we’ll cover how Boden, an online retail company that specializ...

Connecting Snowflake and Apache Kafka ft. Isaac Kunen

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Kunen (Senior Product Manager, Snowflake) and Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent) practice social distancing by meet...

AMA with Tim Berglund | Streaming Audio Special

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Happy 100th episode of Streaming Audio! Thank you to everyone who has listened, subscribed, left a review, and mostly, for sharing our passion for eve...

Kubernetes Meets Apache Kafka ft. Kelsey Hightower

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kelsey Hightower was already an advocate, just like all other developers, long before joining Google officially as a developer advocate and Kubernetes...

Apache Kafka Fundamentals: The Concept of Streams and Tables ft. Michael Noll

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever wondered what Apache Kafka® is, what it’s used for, or wanted to learn about Kafka architecture and all its components, buckle up!...

IoT Integration and Real-Time Data Correlation with Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams ft. Kai Waehner

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are two primary industries within the Internet of Things (IoT): industrial IoT (IIoT) and consumer IoT (CIoT), both of which can benefit from th...

Confluent Platform 5.5 | What's New in This Release + Updates

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Confluent Platform 5.5 is out, and Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent) is here to give you the latest updates! The first i...

Making Abstract Algebra Count in the World of Event Streaming ft. Sam Ritchie

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

During his time at Twitter, Sam Ritchie (Staff Research Engineer, Google) led the development of Summingbird, a project that helped Twitter ingest and...

Apache Kafka 2.5 – Overview of Latest Features, Updates, and KIPs

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Apache Kafka® 2.5 is here, and we’ve got some Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) to discuss! Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, C...

Streaming Data Integration – Where Development Meets Deployment ft. James Urquhart

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Applications, development, deployment, and theory are all key pieces behind customer experience, event streaming, and improving systems and integratio...

How to Run Kafka Streams on Kubernetes ft. Viktor Gamov

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There’s something about YAML and the word “Docker” that doesn’t quite sit well with Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent). But Kafka St...

Cloud Marketplace Considerations with Dan Rosanova

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the fundamental data abstractions used by developers have changed over time, event streams are now the present and the future. Coming from decades ...

Explore, Expand, and Extract with 3X Thinking ft. Kent Beck

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As a programmer, Kent Beck chats about various topics of broad interest to developers, including some of his books: “Extreme Programming Explained: ...

Ask Confluent #17: The “What is Apache Kafka?” Episode ft. Tim Berglund

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ask Confluent is back! From questions on Apache Kafka®, data integration, and log aggregation, to potential interview questions that Tim would ask if...

Domain-Driven Design and Apache Kafka with Paul Rayner

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Domain-driven design (DDD) is helpful for managing complex processes and rules—especially those between business experts and developers/users—and ...

Machine Learning with TensorFlow and Apache Kafka ft. Chris Mattmann

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

TensorFlow is an open source machine learning platform that can be used with Apache Kafka® for deep learning. Chris Mattmann, author of Machine Learn...

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Gwen Shapira

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As an engineering leader managing a team, Gwen Shapira talks through the steps she took to get to Confluent and how she got started working with Apach...

Towards Successful Apache Kafka Implementations ft. Jakub Korab

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it's stream processing, real-time data analytics, to adding business value, Professional Services helps customers thrive within their cho...

Knative 101: Kubernetes and Serverless Explained with Jacques Chester

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is Knative and how does it simplify Kubernetes-related processes through seamless extension? Jacques Chester (Software Engineer, VMware) is publi...

Paving a Data Highway with Kafka Connect ft. Liz Bennett

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Stitch Fix team benefits from a centralized data integration platform at scale using Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect. Liz Bennett (Software Enginee...

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Jun Rao

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jun Rao (Co-founder, Confluent) explains what relational databases and distributed databases are, how they work, and major differences between the two...

How to Write a Successful Conference Abstract | Streaming Audio Special

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Learn how to write an abstract for conference submissions and call for papers with tips from Tim Berglund, chair of the Kafka Summit Program Committee...

Streaming Call of Duty at Activision with Apache Kafka ft. Yaroslav Tkachenko

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the most played Call of Duty multiplayer of this console generation with over $1 billion in sales and almost 300 milli...

Confluent Platform 5.4 | What's New in This Release + Updates

22 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A quick summary of new features, updates, and improvements in Confluent Platform 5.4, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Structured Audit Log...