Improving Fairness Through Connection Throttling in the Cloud with KIP-402 ft. Gwen Shapira

The focus of KIP-402 is to improve fairness in how Apache Kafka® processes connections and how network threads pick up requests and new data. Gwen Shapira (Engineering Manager for Cloud-Native Kafka, Confluent) outlines the details of this KIP and her team’s efforts to make user-facing Kafka improvements. Halfway through the episode, Gwen shares how to send metadata and produce client messages. EPISODE LINKS KIP-402: Improve fairness in SocksetServer processorsJoin the Confluent Communi...

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Hi, we’re Tim Berglund, Adi Polak, and Viktor Gamov and we’re excited to bring you the Confluent Developer podcast (formerly “Streaming Audio.”) Our hand-crafted weekly episodes feature in-depth interviews with our community of software developers (actual human beings - not AI) talking about some of the most interesting challenges they’ve faced in their careers. We aim to explore the conditions that gave rise to each person’s technical hurdles, as well as how their experiences transformed their understanding and approach to building systems. Whether you’re a seasoned open source data streaming engineer, or just someone who’s interested in learning more about Apache Kafka®,  Apache Flink® and real-time data, we hope you’ll appreciate the stories, the discussion, and our effort to bring you a high-quality show worth your time.