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 commun...
22 Jun 31min
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...
11 Jun 32min
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 ...
8 Jun 29min
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: bui...
1 Jun 42min
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 rea...
18 Mai 40min
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 bill...
4 Mai 35min
Building Banking Systems with Kafka Streams with Mateo Rojas | Ep. 28
Adi Polak talks to Mateo Rojas (LittleHorse) about his career working with Kafka Streams. Mateo’s first job: building a real-money policy management platform on early Kafka Streams. His challenge: wor...
20 Apr 44min
The AI Impact on the Developer Future with Joseph Morais | Ep. 27
Tim Berglund talks to Joseph Marais (Confluent) about his career in data streaming. Joseph’s first job: SAN administrator. His challenge: AI radically changing how developers build software. The Pragm...
13 Apr 35min
