Kafka Screams: The Scariest JIRAs and How To Survive Them ft. Anna McDonald

In today's spooktacular episode of Streaming Audio, Anna McDonald (Technical Account Manager, Confluent) discusses six of the scariest Apache Kafka® JIRAs. Starting with KAFKA-6431: Lock Contention in Purgatory, Anna breaks down what purgatory is and how it’s not something to fear or avoid. Next, she dives into KAFKA-8522: Tombstones Can Survive Forever, where she explains tombstones, compacted topics, null values, and log compaction. Not to mention there’s KAFKA-6880: Zombie Replicas Must Be Fenced, which sounds like the spookiest of them all. KAFKA-8233, which focuses on the new TestTopology mummy (wrapper) class, provides one option for setting the topology through your Kafka Screams Streams application. As Anna puts it, "This opens doors for people to build better, more resilient, and more interesting topologies." To close out the episode, Anna talks about two more JIRAs: KAFKA-6738, which focuses on the Kafka Connect dead letter queue as a means of handling bad data, and the terrifying KAFKA-5925 on the addition of an executioner API. EPISODE LINKSKAFKA-6431: Lock Contention in PurgatoryKAFKA-8522: Tombstones Can Survive ForeverKAFKA-6880: Zombie Replicas Must Be FencedKAFKA-8233: Helper Classes to Make it Simpler to Write Test Logic with TopologyTestDriver KAFKA-6738: Kafka Connect Handling of Bad DataKAFKA-5925: Adding Records Deletion Operation to the New Admin Client APIStreaming Apps and Poison Pills: Handle the Unexpected with Kafka StreamsData Modeling for Apache Kafka – Streams, Topics & More with Dani TraphagenDistributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Jason GustafsonKafka Streams Topology VisualizerFollow Anna McDonald on TwitterFollow Mitch Henderson on TwitterJoin the Confluent Community SlackFully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.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  🎧 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.