In this episode, the Linux Inlaws interview a potential new recruit :-) call Kris Jenkins, from Kafka, an Apache project implementing a scalable distributed event streaming platform (don't know what that is? Listen to the show! :-) . A cautious warning: This episode contains strong philosophical / political views, language and insights which may change your views on messaging systems in general and Kafka in particular. Two hints: Chris shares his view on what a database *really* is and Kris Jenkins tries hard to convince our two aging heroes that he's the man for the job (teaser: he decided to stay at his current position as a dev advocate at Confluent after all). Plus: More on love, death and robots. Interested in the details? Then don't miss this show!

Links:

Apache Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org

Confluent: https://www.confluent.io

Redis: https://redis.io

Databases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database

Event-Driven Architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture

RabbitMQ: https://github.com/rabbitmq

Zookeeper note: https://medium.com/knerd/eureka-why-you-shouldnt-use-zookeeper-for-service-discovery-4932c5c7e764

KRaft: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/zookeeper/kraft.html

KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/kafka/kafka+improvement+proposals

Monster Hunter: https://www.monsterhunter.com

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9561862

Unix Philosophy: https://www.linfo.org/unix_philosophy.html