Most Terrifying Apache Kafka JIRAs of 2020 ft. Anna McDonald

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

In this episode, Anna shares six of the most spine-chilling, hair-raising  Apache Kafka® JIRAs from the past year. Her job is to help hunt down problems like these and dig up skeletons like: 

• Early death causes epoch time travel
• Attack of the clones
• Missing snapshot file leads to madness
• Shrink inWriteLock time to avoid maiming cluster performance
• Older groups are forced to flatline
• Ghost segment haunts for eternity 

If JIRAs are undead monsters, Anna is practically a zombie slayer. Get a haunting taste of the horrors that she's battled with as she shares about each of these Kafka updates. Keep calm and scream on in today’s special episode of Streaming Audio!

EPISODE LINKS

• Kafka: A Modern Distributed System
• From Eager to Smarter in Apache Kafka Consumer Rebalances by Sophie Blee-Goldman
• The Magical Rebalance Protocol of Apache Kafka (Strange Loop)
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Learn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent Developer
• Live demo: Kafka streaming in 10 minutes on Confluent Cloud
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