Connecting Snowflake and Apache Kafka ft. Isaac Kunen

Isaac Kunen (Senior Product Manager, Snowflake) and Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent) practice social distancing by meeting up in the virtual studio to discuss all things Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect at Snowflake. Isaac shares what Snowflake is, what it accomplishes, and his experience with developing connectors. The pair discuss the Snowflake Kafka Connector and some of the unique challenges and adaptations it has had to undergo, as well as the interesting history behind the connector. In addition, Isaac talks about how they’re taking on event streaming at Snowflake by implementing the Kafka connector and what he hopes to see in the future with Kafka releases. EPISODE LINKSDownload the Snowflake Kafka ConnectorPaving a Data Highway with Kafka Connect ft. Liz BennettMaking Apache Kafka Connectors for the Cloud ft. Magesh NandakumarMachine Learning with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB ft. Kai WaehnerConnecting to Apache Kafka with Neo4jContributing to Open Source with the Kafka Connect MongoDB Sink ft. Hans-Peter GrahslConnecting Apache Cassandra to Apache Kafka with Jeff Carpenter from DataStaxWhy Kafka Connect? ft. Robin MoffattJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperSEASON 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  🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.