Ask Confluent #10: Cooperative Rebalances for Kafka Connect ft. Konstantine Karantasis

Want to know how Kafka Connect distributes tasks to workers? Always thought Connect rebalances could be improved? In this episode of Ask Confluent, Gwen Shapira speaks with Konstantine Karantasis, software engineer at Confluent, about the latest improvements to Kafka Connect and how to run the Confluent CLI on Windows.

EPISODE LINKS

• Improved rebalancing for Kafka Connect
• Improved rebalancing for Kafka Streams
• The "what would Kafka do?" scenario from Mark Papadakis
• The future of retail at Nordstrom
• Watch the video version of this podcast 

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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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