Making Abstract Algebra Count in the World of Event Streaming ft. Sam Ritchie
During his time at Twitter, Sam Ritchie (Staff Research Engineer, Google) led the development of Summingbird, a project that helped Twitter ingest and process massive amounts of data. It relieved some...
22 Apr 202046min
Apache Kafka 2.5 – Overview of Latest Features, Updates, and KIPs
Apache Kafka® 2.5 is here, and we’ve got some Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) to discuss! Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent) shares improvements and changes to over 10 ...
16 Apr 202010min
Streaming Data Integration – Where Development Meets Deployment ft. James Urquhart
Applications, development, deployment, and theory are all key pieces behind customer experience, event streaming, and improving systems and integration. James Urquhart (Global Field CTO, VMware) is w...
15 Apr 202055min
How to Run Kafka Streams on Kubernetes ft. Viktor Gamov
There’s something about YAML and the word “Docker” that doesn’t quite sit well with Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent). But Kafka Streams on Kubernetes is a phrase that does. Kubernetes is a...
6 Apr 202041min
Cloud Marketplace Considerations with Dan Rosanova
As the fundamental data abstractions used by developers have changed over time, event streams are now the present and the future. Coming from decades of experience in messaging, Dan Rosanova (Senior G...
30 Mar 202033min
Explore, Expand, and Extract with 3X Thinking ft. Kent Beck
As a programmer, Kent Beck chats about various topics of broad interest to developers, including some of his books: “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,” “Test-Driven Development: By Exampl...
25 Mar 202054min
Ask Confluent #17: The “What is Apache Kafka?” Episode ft. Tim Berglund
Ask Confluent is back! From questions on Apache Kafka®, data integration, and log aggregation, to potential interview questions that Tim would ask if he were to interview himself, anything goes. If y...
24 Mar 202025min
Domain-Driven Design and Apache Kafka with Paul Rayner
Domain-driven design (DDD) is helpful for managing complex processes and rules—especially those between business experts and developers/users—and turning them into models. CEO of Virtual Genius Paul ...
18 Mar 202050min
