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!

Cool things of the week

• Kubeflow published a leadership guide to inclusivity site
• Picture what the cloud can do: How the New York Times is using Google Cloud to find untold stories in millions of archived photos blog
• Click-to-deploy on Kubeflow site
• Containerd available for beta testing in Google Kubernetes Engine blog
• Introducing AI Hub and Kubeflow Pipelines: Making AI simpler, faster, and more useful for businesses blog
• Announcing Cloud Scheduler: a modern, managed cron service for automated batch jobs blog

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.