Nobody has much nice to say about MirrorMaker. Cross-cluster replication has been one of Kafka's sore spots for years, and KIP-1279 is the community's attempt to finally fix it.

This episode I'm joined by Omnia Ibrahim, Software Engineer at Apple and Apache Kafka Committer, to talk about what's actually broken in multi-cluster Kafka today, what KIP-1279 changes, and what teams running active-active or active-passive setups should do in the meantime.

We'll also get into the KIP process itself: how a proposal goes from a mailing list idea to something the community accepts, what makes one succeed or fail, and what it's really like to be a Kafka committer.

Join us live and bring your questions for the audience Q&A.