Kafka Connect: Build & Run Data Pipelines • Kate Stanley, Mickael Maison & Danica Fine

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Kate Stanley - Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"
Mickael Maison - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"
Danica Fine - Lead Developer Advocate, Open Source at Snowflake
RESOURCES
Kate
https://fosstodon.org/@katheris
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Mickael
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https://mickaelmaison.com

Danica
https://bsky.app/profile/thedanicafine.bsky.social
https://data-folks.masto.host/@thedanicafine
https://www.linkedin.com
https://linktr.ee/thedanicafine

Links
https://kafka.apache.org
https://flink.apache.org
https://debezium.io
https://strimzi.io

DESCRIPTION
Danica Fine together with the authors of “Kafka Connect” Kate Stanley and Mickael Maison, unpack Kafka Connect's game-changing power for building data pipelines—no tedious custom scripts needed! Kate and Mickael Maison discuss how they structured the book to help everyone, from data engineers to developers, tap into Kafka Connect’s strengths, including Change Data Capture (CDC), real-time data flow, and fail-safe reliability.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kate Stanley & Mickael Maison • Kafka Connect
Shapira, Palino, Sivaram & Petty • Kafka: The Definitive Guide
Viktor Gamov, Dylan Scott & Dave Klein • Kafka in Action

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Understanding Kafka Connect & its versatility (00:04:33)

3. Key use cases for Kafka Connect (00:08:16)

4. Challenging Kafka Connect terminology (00:14:23)

5. Second section of the book focuses on data engineers (00:17:10)

6. Optimizing Kafka Connect (00:25:56)

7. Expanding Kafka Connect: Resources, insights & community (00:43:50)

8. Outro (00:48:41)