Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov
Hi, we’re Tim Berglund, Adi Polak, and Viktor Gamov and we’re excited to bring you the Confluent Developer podcast (formerly “Streaming Audio.”) Our hand-crafted weekly episodes feature in-depth interviews with our community of software developers (actual human beings - not AI) talking about some of the most interesting challenges they’ve faced in their careers. We aim to explore the conditions that gave rise to each person’s technical hurdles, as well as how their experiences transformed their understanding and approach to building systems.
Whether you’re a seasoned open source data streaming engineer, or just someone who’s interested in learning more about Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink® and real-time data, we hope you’ll appreciate the stories, the discussion, and our effort to bring you a high-quality show worth your time.
Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov
Load-Balanced Apache Kafka: Derivco’s Globally Distributed Gaming Business
Normally, an Apache Kafka® application lives close to its cluster, in the same datacenter or availability zone. It expects small latencies, and allows the Kafka client libraries to perform connection pool management and load balancing to the cluster through the regular Kafka partition management mechanisms.
Life was not so simple for global gaming platform Derivco, who had to maintain central data infrastructure and application clusters in geographically diverse locations due to the heavily regulated nature of their business. In this episode, we talk about the challenges associated with that unusual but ingenious network architecture, along with other lessons they learned as they built their Kafka-centric gaming platform.
SEASON 2
Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov
Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed
Music by Coastal Kites
Artwork by Phil Vo
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