Ask Confluent #16: ksqlDB Edition

Vinoth Chandar has led various infrastructure projects at Uber and is one of the main drivers behind the ksqlDB project. In this episode hosted by Gwen Shapira (Engineering Manager, Cloud-Native Apache Kafka®), Vinoth and Gwen discuss what ksqlDB is, the kinds of applications that you can build with it, vulnerabilities, and various ksqlDB use cases. They also talk about what's currently the best version of Apache Kafka version for performance improvements that don’t cause breaking changes to existing Kafka configuration and functionality. 

EPISODE LINKS

• Read about ksqlDB on the blog
• Learn more about ksqlDB
• ksqlDB Demo | The Event Streaming Database in Action
• Follow ksqlDB on Twitter
• What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3
• What is Apache Kafka? 
• Watch the video version of this podcast
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.

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Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov
Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed
Music by Coastal Kites 
Artwork by Phil Vo 

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