163: Simplifying Real-Time Streaming with David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger of Estuary

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Johnny and David’s background in working together (1:56)
• The background story of Estuary (4:15)
• The challenges of ad tech and the need for low latency (5:44)
• Use cases for moving data at scale (10:35)
• Real-time data replication methods (11:54)
• Challenges with Kafka and the birth of Gazette (13:54)
• Comparing Kafka and Gazette (20:22)
• The importance of existing streaming tools (22:28)
• Challenges of managing Kafka and the need for a different approach (23:40)
• The role of compaction in streaming applications (26:54)
• The challenge of relaxing state management (34:01)
• Replication and the problem of data synchronization (36:48)
• Incremental Back Fills and Risk-Free Production Database (46:03)
• Estuary as a Platform and Connectors (47:45)
• The challenges of real-time streaming (57:56)
• Orchestration in real-time streaming (1:00:51)

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