“Failure to Connect” Bugs and Issues in Kafka Connect to Watch Out for a Healthier Environment

Kafka Connect is a great product at connecting systems together and ensuring messages are produced and consumed from topics to endpoints. In order to have the highest availability on Connect, you need to understand the “failures to connect” in regard to any bugs and issues to watch out for in Kafka connect. In presentation, we will be discussing the following subjects:

• High level overview of Kafka connect and identifying breaking points    
• Deep dive into Connect converters where we discuss converter configurations and possible issues    
• Transformations and issues when applying them    
• Schemas and compatibility issues  
• Understanding what possible errors/issues can come up will allow you to have higher availability and more consistent healthy clusters!