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

02/21/25 • 49 min

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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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
Katehttps://fosstodon.org/@katheris https://www.linkedin.com

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https://mas.to/@MickaelMaison https://www.linkedin.com
https://mickaelmaison.com

Danica
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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.

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GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech - Kafka Connect: Build & Run Data Pipelines • Kate Stanley, Mickael Maison & Danica Fine

Transcript

Intro

Danica Fine: All right. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the "GOTO Book Club" My name is Danica Fine. I'm a developer advocate in the data streaming space. And I'm probably entirely too excited to be here today with Kate Stanley and Mickael Maison to discuss the release of their latest book, "Kafka Connect: Build and Run Data Pipelines." And throughout the conversation, I think you'll figure out why I'm so excited to be here chatting with the two o