Getting to Know Kafka with Elad Eldor

Is running Kafka on-prem different than running it in the cloud? You’ll find out from Elad Eldor’s years of experience running, tuning, and troubleshooting Kafka in production environments. Elad didn’t set out to learn Kafka, but he kept asking questions and was given the opportunity to dive deep into system performance. He not only knows what all the columns of iostat mean, he knows what his customers want.  Make sure to subscribe to this topic on all your consumers.

Show Highlights

(0:00) Intro
(9:30) Why do people use Kafka 
(15:00) Learning cloud vs on-prem
(18:30) Kafka vs Linux troubleshooting
(27:00) scaling clusters
(38:00) How to get started

Links Referenced

• Elad’s book: Kafka Troubleshooting in Production https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Troubleshooting-Production-Stabilizing-premises-ebook/dp/B0CJ4FSGMD
• Systems Performance book by Brendan Gregg https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2020-07-15/systems-performance-2nd-edition.html
• Kafka: The Definitive Guide book by Neha Narkhede https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Definitive-Real-Time-Stream-Processing/dp/1491936169

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