All about Kafka

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this episode Matt joins Kris & Jon to discuss Kafka. During their discussion they cover topics like what problems Kafka helps solve, when a company should start considering Kafka, how throwing tech like Kafka at a problem won’t fix everything if there are underlying issues, complexities of using Kafka, managing payload schemas, and more.

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Featuring:

• Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
• Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Matt’s Blog Post About Kafka at Cloudflare
• Sarama library
• Matt’s Golang Insiders Twitter Community
• Kubernetes the Hard Way
• Incident Monolith Blog Post
• Encore
• Memphis
• CRDT
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Buf (mentioned by Matt)
• Prototool
• grpc.io

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1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Matt's qualifications (00:01:34)

3. What is Kafka? (00:03:01)

4. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:12:24)

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5. Barriers to entry (00:13:57)

6. Incident.io (00:35:41)

7. Chasing the next language (00:36:38)

8. CRDT (00:49:45)

9. Kafka and Go (00:54:49)

10. Protobuffs (01:05:11)

11. Unpopular opinions! (01:08:38)

12. Matt's unpop (01:09:02)

13. Kris' unpop (01:14:34)

14. Outro (01:24:02)