SESSION + Live Q&A

Kafka: a Modern Distributed System

You may have heard that Apache Kafka plays a central role in modern event-driven architectures. It lies at the heart of successful microservices implementations -- its loyal following is well versed in Kafka's key APIs: the Producer and Consumer, Kafka Streams, and maybe even KSQL. But have you ever wanted to take a peek under the hood and understand how it all works?

In this talk, we’ll cover Kafka's distributed system fundamentals: the role of the Controller, the mechanics of leader election, the role of Zookeeper today and in the future. We’ll look at how read and write consistency work, how they are tunable, and how how recent innovations like exactly-once semantics and observer replicas work. Come to this talk to view Kafka through the lens of distributed systems fundamentals.


Speaker

Tim Berglund

Senior Director of Developer Experience @Confluent

Tim is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Experience. He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the United States and all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on...

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Location

Whittle, 3rd flr.

Track

Modern CS in the Real World

Topics

Apache KafkaDistributed Systems

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