Contributing to Open Source with the Kafka Connect MongoDB Sink ft. Hans-Peter Grahsl

Sink and source connectors are important for getting data in and out of Apache Kafka®. Tim Berglund invites Hans-Peter Grahsl (Technical Trainer and Software Engineer, Netconomy Software & Consulting GmbH) to share about his involvement in the Apache Kafka project, spanning from several conference contributions all the way to his open source community sink connector for MongoDB, now part of the official MongoDB Kafka connector code base. 

Join us in this episode to learn what it’s like to be the only maintainer of a side project that’s been deployed into production by several companies!

EPISODE LINKS

• MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka
• Getting Started with the MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka and MongoDB
• Kafka Connect MongoDB Sink Community Connector
• Kafka Connect MongoDB Sink Community Connector (GitHub)
• Adventures of Lucy the Havapoo 
• Join the Confluent Community Slack

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