Connecting Snowflake and Apache Kafka ft. Isaac Kunen

Isaac Kunen (Senior Product Manager, Snowflake) and Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent) practice social distancing by meeting up in the virtual studio to discuss all things Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect at Snowflake. 

Isaac shares what Snowflake is, what it accomplishes, and his experience with developing connectors. The pair discuss the Snowflake Kafka Connector and some of the unique challenges and adaptations it has had to undergo, as well as the interesting history behind the connector. 

In addition, Isaac talks about how they’re taking on event streaming at Snowflake by implementing the Kafka connector and what he hopes to see in the future with Kafka releases. 

EPISODE LINKS

• Download the Snowflake Kafka Connector
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• Making Apache Kafka Connectors for the Cloud ft. Magesh Nandakumar
• Machine Learning with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB ft. Kai Waehner
• Connecting to Apache Kafka with Neo4j
• Contributing to Open Source with the Kafka Connect MongoDB Sink ft. Hans-Peter Grahsl
• Connecting Apache Cassandra to Apache Kafka with Jeff Carpenter from DataStax
• Why Kafka Connect? ft. Robin Moffatt
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Learn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent Developer