Today on the show we're talking about streaming data and streaming applications with Apache Kafka. We're joined by Kris Jenkins, Developer Advocate from Confluent, and Rob Walters, Product Manager at MongoDB, who will discuss how you can leverage this technology to your benefit and use it in your applications.
Kafka is traditionally used for building real time streaming data pipelines and real time streaming applications. It began its life in 2010 at LinkedIn and made its way to the public open-source space through a relationship with Apache, the Apache Foundation, in 2011. Since then, the use of Kafka has grown massively and it's estimated that approximately 30% of all Fortune 500 companies are already using Kafka in one way or another.
A great example for why you might want to use Kafka would be perhaps capturing all of the user activity that happens on your website. As users visit your website, they're interacting with links on the page and scrolling up and down. This is potentially large volumes of data. You may want to store this to understand how users are interacting with your website in real time. Kafka will aid in this process by ingesting and storing all of this activity data while serving up reads for applications on the other side.
Conversation highlights include:
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Ep. 194 MongoDB Community Spotlight: Justin Poveda
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Ep. 192 Harnessing the Power of Gaming Data with Sega's Felix Baker
Ep. 191 MongoDB Community Advocacy: Kevin Smith and Nuri Halperin
Ep. 190 Building the MongoDB Docs AI Chatbot
Ep. 189 Life at MongoDB: Named Technical Services Engineering
Ep. 188 The MongoDB Tech Internship Program
Ep. 187 Bridging Databases: Tom Hollander on MongoDB's Relational Migrator
Ep. 186 Computing on the Edge
Ep. 185 PHP, Drupal and MongoDB with David Bekker
Ep. 184 Mastering Local Development Environments with Atlas CLI
Ep. 183 Unleash MongoDB Data with Budibase
Ep. 182 MongoDB Atlas & Vector Search: A Paradigm Shift for Developers
Ep. 181 MongoDB Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency
Ep. 180 MongoDB Developer Experience Updates
Ep. 179 Atlas from Command Line - Max Marcon
Ep. 178 Life at MongoDB: Building the Future of Search
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