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All about Kafka
In this episode Matt joins Kris & Jon to discuss Kafka. During their discussion they cover topics like what problems Kafka helps solve, when a company should start considering Kafka, how throwing tech like Kafka at a problem won’t fix everything if there are underlying issues, complexities of using Kafka, managing payload schemas, and more.
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Featuring:
- Matthew Boyle – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
Show Notes:
- Matt’s Blog Post About Kafka at Cloudflare
- Sarama library
- Matt’s Golang Insiders Twitter Community
- Kubernetes the Hard Way
- Incident Monolith Blog Post
- Encore
- Memphis
- CRDT
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Buf (mentioned by Matt)
- Prototool
- grpc.io
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