For their inaugural episode, Anna McDonald (the Duchess), Matthias J. Sax (the Doctor), and their extinct friend, Phil, wax rhapsodic about all things eventing: you’ll learn why events are a mindset, why the Duchess thinks you’ll find event immutability relaxing, and why your event streams might need some windows. The Duchess & The Doctor Show features a question-driven format that delivers substantial, yet easily comprehensible answers to user-submitted questions on all things events and eventing, including Apache Kafka, its ecosystem, and beyond!

Learn how Apache Flink® can handle hundreds or even thousands of compute nodes running 24/7 and still produce correct results.

As a developer, you want to deploy a new Kafka connector without bothering the platform admin. How? Here you'll learn how to integrate Kafka connectors with your CI/CD toolchain, and manage your connectors as-code with Lenses.

Learn how consumer partition assignment works in Apache Kafka.

In this video, Adam Bellemare compares and contrasts Event-Driven and Request-Driven Architectures to give you a better idea of the tradeoffs and benefits involved with each. Many developers start in the synchronous request-response (RR) world, using REST and RPC to build inter-service communications. But tight service-to-service coupling, scalability, fan-out sensitivity, and data access issues can still remain.