Kafka - Taming the wild horse

Kafka is a popular and well-known platform. Creating a simple Hello-World application doesn't require much effort. However, real life requirements aren't that easy to achieve and demand a much more profound understanding of the nuts and bolts of Kafka.

On this #GDGPittsburgh Talk Carlos López, our Principal Cloud Engineer, goes through the common misconceptions and understand the steps you need to take to succeed in your projects.

Here's a sneak peek of the agenda:

- What is #Kafka?
- Misconceptions about Kafka.
- Kafka internals and its guarantees.
- Stateless vs. Stateful.
- Branching and data flow control.
- Event deduplication and idempotence.
- Joins
- Importing and exporting data.
- Scaling your solution.
- Scenarios in which Kafka could be a good fit.