Disaster Recovery with Multi-Region Clusters in Confluent Platform ft. Anna McDonald and Mitch Henderson

Multi-Region Clusters improve high availability in Apache Kafka®, ensure cluster replication across multiple zones, and help with disaster recovery.

Making sure users are successful in every area of their Kafka deployment, be it operations or application development for specific use cases, is what Anna McDonald (Team Lead Customer Success Technical Architect) and Mitch Henderson (Principal Customer Success Technical Architect) are passionate about here at Confluent.

In this episode, they share common challenges that users often run into with Multi-Region Clusters, uses cases for them, and what to keep in mind when considering replication.

Anna and Mitch also discuss consuming from followers, auto client failover, and offset issues to be aware of.

EPISODE LINKS

Kafka Screams: The Scariest JIRAs and How to Survive Them ft. Anna McDonaldDeploying Confluent Platform, from Zero to Hero ft. Mitch HendersonJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)