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Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov

Hi, we’re Tim Berglund, Adi Polak, and Viktor Gamov and we’re excited to bring you the Confluent Developer podcast (formerly “Streaming Audio.”) Our hand-crafted weekly episodes feature in-depth interviews with our community of software developers (actual human beings - not AI) talking about some of the most interesting challenges they’ve faced in their careers. We aim to explore the conditions that gave rise to each person’s technical hurdles, as well as how their experiences transformed their

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47:49

Choreographing the Saga Pattern in Microservices ft....

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/12/16

Chris Richardson, creator of the original Cloud Foundry, maintainer of microservices.io and author of “Microservices Patterns,” discovered cloud computing in 2006 during an Amazon talk about APIs for provisioning servers. At this time, you could provision 20 servers and pay 10 cents per hour. This blew his mind and led him in 2008 to create the original Cloud Foundry, a PaaS for deploying Java applications on EC2.One of the original Cloud Foundry’s earliest success stories was a digital marketing

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42:59

Apache Kafka and Porsche: Fast Cars and Fast Data ft....

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2020/12/07

We have all heard of Porsche, but did you know that Porsche utilizes event streaming with Apache Kafka®? Today, Sridhar Mamella (Platform Manager, Data Streaming Platforms, Porsche) discusses how Kafka’s event streaming technology powers Porsche through Streamzilla.With the modern Porsche car having 150–200 sensors, Sridhar dives into what Streamzilla is and how it functions with Kafka on premises and in the cloud. He reveals how the first months of event streaming in production went, Porsche’s

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60:25

Tales from the Frontline of Apache Kafka DevOps ft....

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/12/02

Jason Bell (Apache Kafka® DevOps Engineer, digitalis.io, and Author of “Machine Learning: Hands-On for Developers and Technical Professionals” ) delves into his 32-year journey as a DevOps engineer and how he discovered Apache Kafka. He began his voyage in hardware technology before switching over to software development. From there, he got involved in event streaming in the early 2000s where his love for Kafka started. His first Kafka project involved monitoring Kafka clusters for flight search

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44:19

Multi-Tenancy in Apache Kafka ft. Anna Pozvner

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/11/23

Multi-tenancy has been quite the topic within the Apache Kafka® community. Anna Povzner, an engineer on the Confluent team, spends most of her time working on multi-tenancy in Kafka in Confluent Cloud.Anna kicks off the conversation with Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Experience, Confluent) by explaining what multi-tenancy is, why it is worthy to be desired, and advantages over single-tenant architecture. By putting more applications and use cases on the same Kafka cluster instead of

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50:24

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft....

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/11/18

Roger Hoover, one of the first engineers to work on Confluent Cloud, joins Tim Berglund (Senior Director of Developer Experience, Confluent) to chat about the evolution of Confluent Cloud, all the stages that it’s been through, and the lessons he’s learned on the way. He talks through the days before Confluent Platform was created, and how he contributed to Apache Kafka® to run it on OpenStack (the feature used to separate advertised hostnames from the internal hostnames).The Confluent Cloud control

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52:20

Why Kafka Streams Does Not Use Watermarks ft....

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2020/11/12

Do you ever feel like you’re short on time? Well, good news! Confluent Software Engineer Matthias J. Sax is back to discuss how event streaming has changed the game, making time management more simple yet efficient. Matthias explains what watermarking is, the reasons behind why Kafka Streams doesn’t use them, and an alternative approach to watermarking informally called the “slack time approach.” Later, Matthias discusses how you can compare “stream time,” which is the maximum timestamp observed, to

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49:15

Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft....

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/11/02

What's it like being a distributed systems engineer? Apurva Mehta (Engineering Leader, Confluent) explains what attracted him to Apache Kafka®, the challenges and uniqueness of distributed systems, and how to excel in this industry. He dives into the complex math behind the temporal logic of actions (TLA) and shares about his experiences working at Yahoo and Linkedin, which have prepared him to be where he is today.Apurva also shares what he looks for when hiring someone to join his team. When

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51:59

Most Terrifying Apache Kafka JIRAs of 2020 ft. Anna...

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2020/10/28

It’s Halloween again, which means Anna McDonald (Staff Technical Account Manager, Confluent) is back for another spooktacular episode of Streaming Audio.In this episode, Anna shares six of the most spine-chilling, hair-raising Apache Kafka® JIRAs from the past year. Her job is to help hunt down problems like these and dig up skeletons like: Early death causes epoch time travelAttack of the clonesMissing snapshot file leads to madnessShrink inWriteLock time to avoid maiming cluster performanceOlder

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33:46

Ask Confluent #18: The Toughest Questions ft. Anna...

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2020/10/21

It’s the first work-from-home episode of Ask Confluent, where Gwen Shapira (Core Kafka Engineering Leader, Confluent) virtually sits down with Apache Kafka® expert Anna McDonald (Staff Technical Account Manager, Confluent) to answer questions from Twitter. Find out Anna’s favorite Kafka Improvement Proposal (KIP), which will start to use racially neutral terms in the Kafka community and in our code base, as well as answers to the following questions: If you could pick any one KIP from the backlog

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50:41

Joining Forces with Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/10/21

Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a language as elegant as Spring Boot is as a framework? In this episode of Streaming Audio, Tim Berglund talks with Josh Long, Spring developer advocate at VMware about Kotlin, about the productivity-focused language from our friends at JetBrains, and how it works with Spring Boot to make the experience leaner, cleaner, and easy to use.Josh shares how the Spring and Kotlin teams have worked hard to make sure that Kotlin and Spring Boot are a first-class experience

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46:22

Building an Apache Kafka Center of Excellence Within...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/10/14

Neil Buesing, an Apache Kafka® community stalwart at Object Partners, spends his days building things out of Kafka and helping others do the same. Today, he discusses the concept of a CoE (center of excellence), and how a CoE is integral to attain and sustain world-class performance, business value, and success in a business. Neil talks us through how to make a CoE successful, the importance of event streaming, how to better understand streaming technologies, and how to best utilize CoE for your

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46:15

Creating Your Own Kafka Improvement Proposal (KIP) as...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/10/07

Ever wonder what it's like to intern at a place like Confluent? How about working with Kafka Streams and creating your own KIP? Well, that's exactly what we discuss on today's episode with Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas, who first interned as a recruiter for Confluent, quickly realized that she was enamored with the problem solving the engineering team was doing, especially with Kafka Streams. The next time she joined Confluent's intern program, she worked on the Streams team and

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Confluent Platform 6.0 | What's New in This Release +...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/10/01

The feature-rich release of Confluent Platform 6.0, based on Apache Kafka® 2.6, introduces Tiered Storage, Self-Balancing Clusters, ksqlDB 0.10, Admin REST APIs, and Cluster Linking in preview. These features enhance the platform with greater elasticity, improved cost effectiveness, infinite data retention, and global availability so that you can simplify management operations, reduce the cost of adopting Kafka, and focus on building event streaming applications.EPISODE LINKSConfluent Platform 6.0

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56:41

Using Event Modeling to Architect Event-Driven...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/09/30

Bobby Calderwood (Founder, Evident Systems) discusses event streaming, event modeling, and event-driven architecture. He describes the emerging visual language and process, how to effectively understand and teach what events are, and some of Bobby's own use cases in the field with oNote, Evident System’s new SaaS platform for event modeling. Finally, Bobby emphasizes the power of empowering and informing the community on how best to integrate event streaming with the outside world.EPISODE

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Using Apache Kafka as the Event-Driven System for...

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2020/09/21

Did you know that a team of 900 developers at Wix is using Apache Kafka® to maintain 1,500 microservices? Tim Berglund sits down with Natan Silnitsky (Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Wix) to talk all about how Wix benefits from using an event streaming platform. Wix (the website that’s made for building websites) is designing a platform that gives people the freedom to create, manage, and develop their web presence exactly the way they want as they look to move from synchronous to asynchronous

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47:27

Top 6 Things to Know About Apache Kafka ft. Gwen Shapira

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/09/15

This year, Confluent turns six! In honor of this milestone, we are taking a very special moment to celebrate with Gwen Shapira by highlighting the top six things everyone should know about Apache Kafka®:Clients have metricsBug fix releases/Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs)Idempotent producers and how they workKafka Connect is part of Kafka and Single Message Transforms (SMTs) are worth not missing out onCooperative rebalancing Generating sequence numbers and how Kafka changes the way you

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48:18

5 Years of Event Streaming and Counting ft. Gwen...

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2020/08/31

With the explosion of real-time data, Apache Kafka and event stream processing (ESP) have grown in proliferation, with event streaming technology becoming the de facto technology transforming businesses across numerous verticals. Gwen Shapira (Engineering Leader, Confluent), Ben Stopford (Senior Director, OCTO, Confluent), and Michael Noll (Principal Technologist, Confluent) meet up to talk all about their last five years at Confluent and the changes they’ve seen in event streaming. They discuss

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47:26

Championing Serverless Eventing at Google Cloud ft....

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/08/26

Jay Smith helps Google Cloud users modernize their applications with serverless eventing. This helps them focus on their code instead of managing infrastructure, as well as ultra-fast deployments and reduced server costs. On today’s show, he discusses the definition of serverless, serverless eventing, data-driven vs. event-driven architecture, sources and sinks, and hybrid cloud with on-prem components. Finally, Jay shares how he sees application architecture changing in the future and where Apache

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43:04

Disaster Recovery with Multi-Region Clusters in...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/08/17

Multi-Region Clusters improve high availability in Apache Kafka®, ensure cluster replication across multiple zones, and help with disaster recovery. Making sure users are successful in every area of their Kafka deployment, be it operations or application development for specific use cases, is what Anna McDonald (Team Lead Customer Success Technical Architect) and Mitch Henderson (Principal Customer Success Technical Architect) are passionate about here at Confluent.In this episode, they share common

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Developer Advocacy (and Kafka Summit) in the Pandemic...

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak &... ·

2020/08/12

All Confluent developer advocates...assemble! COVID-19 has changed the face of meetings and events, halting all in-person gatherings and forcing companies to adapt on the fly. In today's episode of Streaming Audio, the developer advocates come together to discuss how their jobs have changed during the worldwide pandemic. Less than a year ago, this group was constantly on the road or in a plane on their way to present something new about Apache Kafka and event streaming, so how has the current

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