Kafka Connect: Build & Run Data Pipelines • Kate Stanley, Mickael Maison & Danica Fine

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Kate Stanley - Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"
Mickael Maison - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"
Danica Fine - Lead Developer Advocate, Open Source at Snowflake
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Kate
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Mickael
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Danica
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Links
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https://flink.apache.org
https://debezium.io
https://strimzi.io

DESCRIPTION
Danica Fine together with the authors of “Kafka Connect” Kate Stanley and Mickael Maison, unpack Kafka Connect's game-changing power for building data pipelines—no tedious custom scripts needed! Kate and Mickael Maison discuss how they structured the book to help everyone, from data engineers to developers, tap into Kafka Connect’s strengths, including Change Data Capture (CDC), real-time data flow, and fail-safe reliability.

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Kate Stanley & Mickael Maison • Kafka Connect
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פרקים

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Understanding Kafka Connect & its versatility (00:04:33)

3. Key use cases for Kafka Connect (00:08:16)

4. Challenging Kafka Connect terminology (00:14:23)

5. Second section of the book focuses on data engineers (00:17:10)

6. [Ad] Crossing Borders (00:17:39)

7. (Cont.) Second section of the book focuses on data engineers (00:18:17)

8. Optimizing Kafka Connect (00:26:33)

9. Expanding Kafka Connect: Resources, insights & community (00:44:27)

10. Outro (00:49:18)