EP 31: Event Streaming Beyond Kafka | Christina Lin
simplyblockSeptember 27, 202400:29:08

EP 31: Event Streaming Beyond Kafka | Christina Lin

In this episode of Cloud Commute, Christina Lin from Redpanda Data discusses how Redpanda simplifies data streaming as an alternative to Kafka. She and Chris Engelbert explore its ease of use, cloud compatibility, and innovations like the BYOC service as a seamless Kafka alternative.

Cloud Commute is your weekly 25-30 minutes podcast, talking about all things cloud, technology, storage, security, Kubernetes, and more. Joined by veteran guests from the industry, host Chris Engelbert explores new tools, ecosystem developments and upcoming releases. If you’re a tech enthusiast, working in DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, or engineering, this is the podcast for you. Make your commute worthwhile and join us on the journey of technology.

📔 Chapters:
00:00 - Episode Preview
01:16 - Christina Lin introduces himself
03:20 - What Christina loves about Redpanda
06:08 - KRaft mode exists because of Redpanda?
07:17 - Why do you need Kafka streaming data?
11:29 - Redpanda is evolving
19:10 - The thing about bare metal machines
23:38 - How to get started with Redpanda
24:32 - What's the next big thing for Christina?
28:02 - Conclusion

📋 Shownotes:
Guest links & episode links:
► Christina's Linkedin: /weimeilin
► Christina's X/Twitter: @Christina_wm
► Christina's Github: /weimeilin79
► Redpanda: https://www.redpanda.com
► Apache Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org/
► Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): https://www.redpanda.com/blog/deploy-redpanda-clusters-cloud-aws-gcp

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