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Confluent: Apache Kafka Talks
Official talks and tutorials on event streaming, Kafka internals and stream processing.
By Confluent · Confluent · Added 2026-08-10
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Now an IBM company, Confluent was built by the creators of Apache Kafka® to help businesses easily access and use live, streaming data. Its platform manages large flows of data and shares them across an organization in real time. Industries like retail, finance, and manufacturing connect their data, analyze it, and…
A talk or video. Watch it with a pause button handy: it is easiest to follow once you know the basic vocabulary.
- Who it suits
- You know the basics (caching, queues, replication) and want to see them applied.
- From
- Confluent: see more from them
- Design areas it touches
- Messaging and event streamingArchitecture and microservicesLearning and interview prep
- Read it alongside
- System Design Foundations: Queues, streams and asynchronous work
- Advanced Distributed Systems: Kafka internals: segments, replication and consumer groups
- Messaging and Microservice Patterns: Message brokers compared
- Messaging and Microservice Patterns: Reliable messaging: retries, dead letters, ordering and the outbox
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- Which number or limit forced their main decision?
- What did they try first, and why did it stop working?
- What did they choose not to build?
After
- What would break first if traffic grew tenfold?
- What did they trade away to get what they wanted?
- Explain the design in three sentences, without looking.
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