A quick summary of new features, updates, and improvements in Confluent Platform 5.4, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Structured Audit Logs, Multi-Region Clusters, Confluent Control Center enhancements, Schema Validation, and the preview for Tiered Storage.This release also includes pull queries and embedded connectors in preview as part of KSQL.

EPISODE LINKS

• Confluent Platform 5.4 Release Notes 
• Introducing Confluent Platform 5.4
• Download Confluent Platform 5.4
• Watch the video version of this podcast
• Join us in Confluent Community Slack
• Get 30% off Kafka Summit London registration with the code KSL20Audio

SEASON 2
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Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed
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From previously focusing on Confluent Schema Registry to now making connectors for Confluent Cloud, Magesh Nandakumar (Software Engineer, Confluent) discusses what connectors do, how they simplify data integrations, and how they enable sophisticated customer use cases. With connectors built for Confluent Cloud on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), this helps users implement Apache Kafka® within their existing systems in an easy way. There’s a lot that Magesh is looking forward to when the world of connectors and the world of cloud collide.

EPISODE LINKS

• Why Kafka Connect? ft. Robin Moffatt
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.
• Get 30% off Kafka Summit London registration with the code KSL20Audio

SEASON 2
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Music by Coastal Kites
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One way to put Apache Kafka into action is through geofencing and tracking the location data of objects, barges, and cars in real time. Guido Schmutz (Principal Consultant, Trivadis) shares about one such use case involving a German steel company and the development project he worked on for them, which he featured in a talk at Berlin Buzzwords. 

EPISODE LINKS

• Location Analytics – Real-Time Geofencing Using Kafka (Video) 
• Location Analytics – Real-Time Geofencing Using Kafka (Slides) 
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SEASON 2
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Music by Coastal Kites
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The role of monitoring hosted services is evolving, but the ability to let go of the details to get what you are paying for with SaaS has always been there. Dustin Cote (Product Manager for Observability, Confluent Cloud) talks about Apache Kafka® made serverless and how beyond just the brokers, Confluent Cloud focuses on fitting into customer systems rather than building monitoring silos. 

When it comes to monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting, Dustin defines what they all mean and how they operate in a database before diving into the requirements needed in order for a properly observable cloud service to exist and on-prem service. 

EPISODE LINKS

• Confluent Cloud Metrics API documentation
• Join #confluent-cloud on the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

SEASON 2
Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov
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Music by Coastal Kites
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As the head of global field engineering and community at Imply, Rachel Pedreschi is passionate about engaging both externally with customers and internally with departments all across the board, from sales to engineering. Rachel’s involvement in the open source community focuses primarily on Apache Druid, a real-time, high-performance datastore that provides fast, sub-second analytics and complements another powerful open source project as well: Apache Kafka®. Together, Kafka and Druid provide real-time event streaming and high-performance streaming analytics with powerful visualizations.

EPISODE LINKS

• How To Use Kafka and Druid to Tame Your Router Data
• ETL and Event Streaming Explained ft. Stewart Bryson
• Who is Abraham Wald?
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

SEASON 2
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Music by Coastal Kites
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Apache Kafka 2.4 includes new Kafka Core developments and improvements to Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect, including MirrorMaker 2.0, RocksDB metrics, and more.

EPISODE LINKS

• Read about what's new in Apache Kafka 2.4
• Check out the Apache Kafka 2.4 release notes
• Watch the video version of this podcast

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

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Developing cloud-based applications requires unique patterns and practices that make them suitable for modern cloud platforms. Host Tim Berglund catches up with Cornelia Davis, author of Cloud-Native Patterns and VP of Technology at Pivotal, on what cloud-native patterns are, the example code she created, her latest book, and how she wrote the book for the customers she interacts with on a daily basis. 

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• Get 40% off Cloud Native Patterns with the code podcon19
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

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

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Vinoth Chandar has led various infrastructure projects at Uber and is one of the main drivers behind the ksqlDB project. In this episode hosted by Gwen Shapira (Engineering Manager, Cloud-Native Apache Kafka®), Vinoth and Gwen discuss what ksqlDB is, the kinds of applications that you can build with it, vulnerabilities, and various ksqlDB use cases. They also talk about what's currently the best version of Apache Kafka version for performance improvements that don’t cause breaking changes to existing Kafka configuration and functionality. 

EPISODE LINKS

• Read about ksqlDB on the blog
• Learn more about ksqlDB
• ksqlDB Demo | The Event Streaming Database in Action
• Follow ksqlDB on Twitter
• What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3
• What is Apache Kafka? 
• Watch the video version of this podcast
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

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

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In this episode, Kai Waehner (Senior Systems Engineer, Confluent) defines machine learning in depth, describes the architecture of his dream machine learning pipeline, shares about its relevance to Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and the related ecosystem, and discusses the importance of security and fraud detection. He also covers Kafka use cases, including an example of how Kafka Streams and TensorFlow provide predictive analytics for connected cars.

EPISODE LINKS

• How to Build and Deploy Scalable Machine Learning in Production with Apache Kafka
• Learn about Apache Kafka
• Learn about Kafka Connect
• Learn about ksqlDB, the successor to KSQL
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

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

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Streamlining banking technology to help smaller banks and credit unions thrive among financial giants is top of mind for Bobby Calderwood (Founder, Evident Systems), who started out in programming, transitioned to banking, and recently launched Evident Real-Time Payments. 

Payments leverages Confluent Cloud to help banks of all sizes transform to real-time banking services from traditionally batch-oriented, bankers’ hours operational mode. This is achieved through Apache Kafka® and the Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect APIs with Clojure using functional programming paradigms like transducers. 

Bobby also shares about his efforts to help financial services companies build their next-generation platforms on top of streaming events, including interesting use cases, addressing hard problems that come up in payments, and identifying solutions that make event streaming technology easy to use within established banking structures. 

EPISODE LINKS

• Toward a Functional Programming Analogy for Microservices
• Event Modeling: Designing Modern Information Systems
• Finovate Fall/Evident Systems
• The REPL Podcast: 30: Bobby Calderwood on Kafka and Fintech
• Clojure Transducers
• Rich Hickey’s Twitter
• David Nolen's Twitter
• Stuart Halloway’s Twitter
• Chris Redinger’s Twitter
• Tim Ewald’s LinkedIn
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

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

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