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

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  • 155 Contributors Later: Where Kafka Is Headed ft. Andrew Schofield | Ep. 34

    June 22, 2026 · 31 min

    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…

  • Agent Mesh: A Microservice With a Brain ft John Miller & Eric Broda | Ep. 33

    June 11, 2026 · 33 min

    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…

  • 10 Years of Kafka Streams with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 32

    June 8, 2026 · 30 min

    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…

  • Gunnar Morling Built a New Parquet Engine with AI | Ep. 31

    June 1, 2026 · 43 min

    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…

  • How AI Is Changing Apache Iceberg with Russell Spitzer | Ep. 30

    May 18, 2026 · 41 min

    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…

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  • Being Wrong in the Right Direction with Caleb Grillo | Ep. 29

    May 4, 2026 · 36 min

    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…

  • Building Banking Systems with Kafka Streams with Mateo Rojas | Ep. 28

    April 20, 2026 · 45 min

    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: working at LittleHorse with Kafka as a…

  • The AI Impact on the Developer Future with Joseph Morais | Ep. 27

    April 13, 2026 · 36 min

    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 Pragmatic Engineer episode ft. Grady Booch…

  • Tech vs. People: The Hardest Problem with Will LaForest | Ep. 26

    April 6, 2026 · 29 min

    Tim Berglund talks to Will LaForest (Confluent) about his career in software and data streaming. Will’s first job: a high school internship at DARPA. His challenge: turning advanced technology into something people actually care…

  • How Maven Changed Java Forever with Baruch Sadogursky | Ep. 25

    March 30, 2026 · 38 min

    Viktor Gamov talks to Baruch Sudakurski (TuxCare) about his career in developer advocacy. Baruch's first job: fixing electric kettles. His challenge: figuring out how to map a non-relational database (MongoDB) into Spring Data’s…

  • Inside OpenAI’s Streaming Backbone with Aravind Suresh | Ep. 24

    March 23, 2026 · 31 min

    Adi Polak talks to Aravind Suresh (OpenAI) about his career in distributed systems and real-time streaming. Arvind’s first job: coding at school. His challenge: turning OpenAI’s fragile Kafka setup into a reliable, multi-region streaming…

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

    March 16, 2026 · 30 min

    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…

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About the show

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 understanding and approach to building systems.  Whether you’re a seasoned open source data streaming engineer, or just someone who’s interested in learning more about Apache Kafka®,  Apache Flink® and real-time data, we hope you’ll appreciate the stories, the discussion, and our effort to bring you a high-quality show worth your time.