The 1 Billion Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling | Ep. 23

About this episode

Tim Berglund talks to Gunnar Morling about his career in open source Java and the challenges of data streaming.

Tim Berglund talks to Gunnar Morling (Confluent) about his career in open source Java and data streaming. Gunnar’s first job: a student PHP developer in AMD’s e-learning group. His challenge: working at Decodable on the 1 Billion Row Challenge. 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 ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Berglund, Adi Polak, Viktor Gamov

Guest: Gunnar Morling

Topics covered

• open source
• Java
• data streaming
• 1 Billion Row Challenge

Keywords

• Decodable
• PHP developer
• AMD
• e-learning

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Confluent

Books & works: The 1 Billion Row Challenge, Confluent

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