A podcast conversation between Viktor Gamov (Confluent) and Ekaterina Gorshkova, author of the new book 'Kafka for Architects'. They discuss her journey into Kafka starting around 2015, real-world use cases and failure patterns (organizational challenges, data contracts, schema compatibility), Kafka anti-patterns (request-response, batch processing), Kafka's role in AI-driven architectures and agentic systems, and the evolving streaming landscape including Apache Flink as a successor to KSQL DB. The conversation emphasizes that Kafka failures are usually organizational rather than technical.
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