42 min
Kora: Cloud Native Platform for Kafka SaaS for Developers
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- Technology
We invited Anna Povzner, director of engineering at Confluent, to the show to discuss Kora. Kora is a Cloud Native platform based on Apache Kafka, which her team at Confluent built. Anna and her team recently published a paper about Kora in VLDB 2023, and it won the industry's best paper award.
Kora VLDB paper: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf
In our conversation, we discussed:
- Capacity abstractions for serverless Kafka
- Reconciling design constraints into a cohesive architecture
- Key components of the architecture: Rebalances, quotas, cells.
- How to drive deep technical innovation at a fast-growing company
- Delivering low and predictable latency with Apache Kafka
We invited Anna Povzner, director of engineering at Confluent, to the show to discuss Kora. Kora is a Cloud Native platform based on Apache Kafka, which her team at Confluent built. Anna and her team recently published a paper about Kora in VLDB 2023, and it won the industry's best paper award.
Kora VLDB paper: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf
In our conversation, we discussed:
- Capacity abstractions for serverless Kafka
- Reconciling design constraints into a cohesive architecture
- Key components of the architecture: Rebalances, quotas, cells.
- How to drive deep technical innovation at a fast-growing company
- Delivering low and predictable latency with Apache Kafka
42 min