So, after far too long a hiatus, we���re back on the Magpie Talkshow for a one-off episode where I interview Kafka creator and Confluent CEO, Jay Kreps.

I���ve been doing a small amount of work with Confluent recently, and through this I got the chance to meet Jay, and I thought he���d make a great guest for the show. So in this episode we���re going to learn about Jay���s own journey in the tech industry, as well as diving into the mindset behind Kafka and where you might want to use it.

There are a couple of firsts in this episode. Firstly, it was recorded remotely via video conferencing - I think the audio quality is pretty good, largely thanks to the use of zencaster. I did however have to do more editing than usual but I���m pretty happy with how it turned out. Secondly We���re also going to be sharing a video of our chat over on confluent's website, and I���ll update this post with a link once it���s available.

I do have to apologise for the sporadic nature of the episodes I���m putting out but as is often the case, life get���s in the way. In between our last episode and this one I setup my own company, and left Australia for London, where I am currently based. I still plan to publish the occasional episode from time to time, so please do stay subscribed to the feed. Hopefully if things settle down a bit I may get back to a more regular posting schedule!

Jay and I talked about a number of things on the podcast, but the main one I wanted to highlight is previous guest Ben Stopford���s really interesting posts on using Kafka for sharing data between microservices. There are some fascinating ideas there which I think can solve problems many of us face when creating finer-grained distributed systems.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the show!