Overview
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Dive into a fascinating 1-hour 11-minute podcast episode featuring Anna McDonald, Principal Customer Success Technical Architect at Confluent, as she explores the top six worst Apache Kafka JIRA bugs. Gain valuable insights into Kafka's inner workings, including batching processes, replication protocols, and networking stack interactions. Learn about critical issues like the sticky partitioner bug, TCP congestion control problems, and race conditions in AlterIsr response handling. Discover how these bugs impact Kafka's performance and the solutions implemented to address them. Perfect for developers, system administrators, and anyone interested in understanding the complexities of distributed systems and data streaming platforms.
Syllabus
- Intro
- Kafka JIRA-10888: The sticky partitioner
- Kafka JIRA-9648: SYN cookies with evil frosting
- Kafka JIRA-9211: TCP delays after upgrading
- Kafka JIRA-12686: Attack of the overloaded cluster
- Kafka JIRA-12964: A Killer From the Past Strikes When You Least Expect It
- Kafka JIRA-14334: Whoops! I forgot to buy you a gift by Christmas
- It's a wrap!
Taught by
Confluent