# 🎧 Ask Confluent #6: Kafka, Partitions, and Exactly Once ft. Jason Gustafson

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_There’s a new Streaming Audio episode - check it out!_

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Jason Gustafson, a Kafka PMC member and engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about the big questions on Kafka architecture— number of partitions and exactly once. In "Ask Confluent," Gwen Shapira (Data Architect, Confluent) and guests respond to a handful of questions and comments from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.  
  
EPISODE LINKS

- [Hardening Kafka Replication](https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-sf18/hardening-kafka-replication)
- [Kafka open issues](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA)
- [Watch the video version of this podcast](https://youtu.be/CeDivZQvdcs)

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