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155 Contributors Later: Where Kafka Is Headed ft. Andrew Schofield | Ep. 34
Jun 22, 2026
31m 10s
Agent Mesh: A Microservice With a Brain ft John Miller & Eric Broda | Ep. 33
Jun 11, 2026
32m 41s
10 Years of Kafka Streams with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 32
Jun 8, 2026
29m 41s
Gunnar Morling Built a New Parquet Engine with AI | Ep. 31
Jun 1, 2026
42m 36s
How AI Is Changing Apache Iceberg with Russell Spitzer | Ep. 30
May 18, 2026
40m 57s
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| 6/22/26 |  155 Contributors Later: Where Kafka Is Headed ft. Andrew Schofield | Ep. 34 | Tim Berglund talks to Andrew Schofield (Confluent) about his career in Apache Kafka. Andrew’s first job: working on queuing systems in 1991. His challenge: working at Confluent and in the Kafka community to bring queue semantics into Kafka while also helping shape major efforts like diskless Kafka, disaster recovery, and the project’s broader evolution. ► Queues for Kafka Explained (KIP-932): https://youtu.be/Wb0xyqgaIqw SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced ... | 31m 10s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 |  Agent Mesh: A Microservice With a Brain ft John Miller & Eric Broda | Ep. 33 | Tim Berglund talks to John Miller (Enid Technologies) and Eric Broda (Agentic Mesh Company) about their work on agent mesh and enterprise agents. Their challenge: rethinking agents as enterprise-grade participants in business processes. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts... | 32m 41s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 |  10 Years of Kafka Streams with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 32 | Tim Berglund talks to Matthias J. Sax (Confluent) about 10 whole years of Kafka Streams! Matthias’ first job: electrician-in-training on BMW’s assembly lines. His challenge: reflecting on 10 years of Kafka Streams growth, major milestones, and what comes next. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer whereve... | 29m 41s | ||||||
| 6/1/26 | Gunnar Morling Built a New Parquet Engine with AI | Ep. 31 | Tim Berglund talks to Gunnar Morling (Confluent) about his career in open source Java and data infrastructure. Gunnar’s first job: a student PHP developer in AMD’s e-learning group. His challenge: building Hardwood, a fast, multi-threaded Parquet engine for Java with minimal dependencies. ► The One Billion Row Challenge blog post: https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/ SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Pete... | 42m 36s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 |  How AI Is Changing Apache Iceberg with Russell Spitzer | Ep. 30 | Adi Polak talks to Russell Spitzer (Snowflake) about his career in open source data infrastructure. Russell’s first job: software engineer in test at DataStax. His challenge: making Apache Iceberg ready for AI and streaming. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Su... | 40m 57s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | Being Wrong in the Right Direction with Caleb Grillo | Ep. 29 | Tim Berglund talks to Caleb Grillo (Confluent / WarpStream) about his career in data streaming product management. Caleb’s first job: washing windows. Their challenge: reshaping Confluent Cloud’s billing and pioneering diskless Kafka to trade latency for huge cost savings. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Deve... | 35m 59s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | Building Banking Systems with Kafka Streams with Mateo Rojas | Ep. 28✨ | Kafka Streamsbanking systems+2 | Mateo Rojas | Kafka StreamsLittleHorse+3 | — | real-moneyLittleHorse+1 | — | 44m 46s | |
| 4/13/26 |  The AI Impact on the Developer Future with Joseph Morais | Ep. 27✨ | AIdeveloper future+1 | Joseph Morais | data streamingThe AI Impact on the Developer Future+1 | — | software developmentcareer+1 | — | 35m 42s | |
| 4/6/26 | Tech vs. People: The Hardest Problem with Will LaForest | Ep. 26✨ | softwaredata streaming+2 | Will LaForest | DARPAConfluent Developer+1 | — | DARPAinternship+1 | — | 28m 42s | |
| 3/30/26 | How Maven Changed Java Forever with Baruch Sadogursky | Ep. 25✨ | JavaMaven+3 | Baruch Sadogursky | MavenMongoDB+5 | — | developer toolsnon-relational database+1 | — | 38m 19s | |
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| 3/23/26 |  Inside OpenAI’s Streaming Backbone with Aravind Suresh | Ep. 24✨ | distributed systemsreal-time streaming+2 | Aravind Suresh | KafkaOpenAI+3 | — | streaming backbonemulti-region+1 | — | 30m 51s | |
| 3/16/26 |  The 1 Billion Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling | Ep. 23✨ | open sourceJava+2 | Gunnar Morling | ConfluentAMD+3 | — | DecodablePHP developer+2 | — | 30m 17s | |
| 3/9/26 |  From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22✨ | software engineeringevent-driven architectures+1 | Sage Pierce | Java SwingAtleon+3 | — | Java SwingDepartment of Defense+3 | — | 34m 50s | |
| 3/2/26 | From Coding Machines to Leading Humans ft. Leonid Igolnik | Ep. 21✨ | B2B SaaSengineering leadership+2 | Leonid Igolnik | Influence without AuthorityDrive+4 | — | PascalInfluence without Authority+2 | — | 36m 43s | |
| 2/23/26 | Killing Clusters & Orchestrating Chaos with Colt McNealy | Ep. 20✨ | distributed systemsmicroservices+1 | Colt McNealy | Kafka StreamsLittleHorse Enterprises+2 | — | LittleHorse EnterprisesKafka Streams+1 | — | 38m 00s | |
| 2/16/26 |  Deleting Architecture for Better Systems ft. Daniel Doubrovkine | Ep. 19✨ | data-intensive systemssoftware architecture+1 | Daniel Doubrovkine | ShopifyArtsy+4 | — | pharmacy medicationsArt Genome+1 | — | 26m 05s | |
| 2/9/26 |  Fail Fast & Ship It with Jeremy Custenborder | Ep. 18 | Viktor Gamov talks to Jeremy Custenborder (Confluent) about his career in large-scale systems. Jeremy’s first job: paper boy. His challenge: keeping MySpace running at a massive pre-cloud scale while building the tools that didn’t exist yet and learning to fail fast. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer ... | 27m 00s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | From “This May Never Work” to WarpStream with Richie Artoul | Ep. 17 | Tim Berglund talks to Richie Artoul (WarpStream/Confluent) about his career in data infrastructure. Richie’s first job: working at Howie’s Game Shack, a walk‑in LAN gaming cafe. His challenge: working at Datadog on a new log storage system. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podc... | 30m 20s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 |  Inside $3M GPU Racks: Powering Modern AI with Bryan Oliver | Ep. 16 | Adi Polak talks to Bryan Oliver (Thoughtworks) about his career in platform engineering and large-scale AI infrastructure. Bryan’s first job: building pools and teaching swimming lessons. His challenge: running large-scale GPU data centers while keeping AI workloads predictable and reliable. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscrib... | 30m 18s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 |  Hacking Kafka Streams with Sophie Blee‑Goldman | Ep. 15 | Tim Berglund talks to Sophie Blee-Goldman (Responsive) about her career in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. Sophie’s first job: interning at Google. Her challenge: helping a hyper-growth customer whose Kafka Streams app was about to hit partition-based scalability limits. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Con... | 34m 33s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 |  Turning Chaos into Push-Button Provisioning with Dhiraj Suri| Ep. 14 | Viktor Gamov talks to Dhiraj Suri (Confluent) about his career in systems engineering and stream governance. Dhiraj’s first job: software developer at NetApp. His challenge: working at Splunk to stitch together disparate systems into an event-driven provisioning platform. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Devel... | 21m 13s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | The Late Night Hack That Changed Daniel Hinojosa's Career | Ep. 13 | Tim Berglund talks to Daniel Hinojosa (an independent consultant) about his career in software development, data engineering, and event-driven architecture. Daniel’s first job: Sears credit card telemarketing. His challenge: working at a company with internal bad blood and being called at 11 p.m. to pull off a late night “security research” hack on Windows and Lotus Notes systems. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furi... | 16m 18s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | From Early Startups to Product Leadership with Mike Agnich | Ep. 12 | Tim Berglund talks to Mike Agnich (Confluent) about his career in product leadership and startups. Mike’s first job: refereeing youth basketball. His challenge: leading product across connectors, governance, stream processing, and partnerships at Confluent. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever y... | 18m 39s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 |  Adventures in Data Infrastructure with Gwen Shapira | Ep. 11 | Adi Polak talks to Gwen Shapira (Nile) about her career in databases and data infrastructure. Gwen’s first job: a side hustle fixing computers. Her challenge: figuring out why a production report at HP slowed down dramatically after daylight saving time. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you ... | 21m 32s | ||||||
| 12/1/25 |  Decreasing Java Build Times with Pratik Patel | Ep. 10 | Tim Berglund talks to Pratik Patel (Azul Systems) about his career in developer relations and Java. Pratik’s first job: computer lab assistant at UNC Chapel Hill. His challenge: working at a large enterprise with manual, slow build processes and transforming them through automation. SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo 🎧 Subscribe to Conf... | 25m 56s | ||||||
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