

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov
Confluent
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.
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Mar 4, 2019 • 19min
Catch Your Bus with KSQL: A Stream Processing Recipe by Leslie Kurt
We all know that feeling of waiting when your ride is running late. Leslie Kurt shares about how you can use KSQL to calculate the difference between the expected arrival time and real-time updates of a bus as it executes its route. Listen as Leslie walks you through fundamental concepts like KTables, Kafka Streams, persistent queries and Confluent MQTT Proxy, as well as other use cases that involve a similar mechanism of capturing Unix timestamps and performing a stream processing operation on these timestamps.EPISODE LINKSAbout KSQLStream Processing CookbookKSQL Recipe: Calculating Bus Delay TimeFor more, you can check out ksqlDB, the successor to KSQL.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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Feb 27, 2019 • 46min
KTable Update Suppression (and a Bunch About KTables) ft. John Roesler
When you are dealing with streaming data, it might seem like tables are things that dwell in the far-off land of relational databases, outside of Apache Kafka and your event streaming system. But then the Kafka Streams API gives us the KTable abstraction, which lets us create tabular views of data in Kafka topics. Apache Kafka 2.1 featured an interesting change to the table API—commonly known to the world as KIP-328—that gives you better control over how updates to tables are emitted into destination topics. What might seem like a tiny piece of minutia gives us an opportunity to explore important parts of the Streams API, and unlocks some key new use cases. Join John Roesler for a clear explanation of the whole thing.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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Feb 25, 2019 • 21min
Splitting and Routing Events with KSQL ft. Pascal Vantrepote
Tim Berglund chats with System Engineer Pascal Vantrepote about a KSQL recipe he created based on a real-life customer use case in the financial services industry. They also discuss the advantages of KSQL, such as its expressiveness and ease of deployment in places where you’re not already writing a Java application.EPISODE LINKSAbout KSQL Stream Processing CookbookKSQL Recipe: Data Routing Joined with a KTableFor more, you can check out ksqlDB, the successor to KSQL.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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Feb 20, 2019 • 21min
Ask Confluent #10: Cooperative Rebalances for Kafka Connect ft. Konstantine Karantasis
Want to know how Kafka Connect distributes tasks to workers? Always thought Connect rebalances could be improved? In this episode of Ask Confluent, Gwen Shapira speaks with Konstantine Karantasis, software engineer at Confluent, about the latest improvements to Kafka Connect and how to run the Confluent CLI on Windows.EPISODE LINKSImproved rebalancing for Kafka ConnectImproved rebalancing for Kafka StreamsThe "what would Kafka do?" scenario from Mark PapadakisThe future of retail at NordstromWatch the video version of this podcast 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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Feb 14, 2019 • 41min
The Future of Serverless and Streaming with Neil Avery
Neil Avery explores the intersection between FaaS and event streaming applications before taking a quick detour back in time to understand how we've gotten to this point in event-driven applications. He'll explain the pros and cons of FaaS, and cover how in its current state cold starts and latency concerns need to be part of the bigger picture when building streaming applications. Finally, Neil shares five rules that will help you understand how FaaS fits with the event streaming application.EPISODE LINKSJourney to Event Driven – Part 1: Why Event-First Thinking Changes EverythingJourney to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven ArchitectureJourney to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and ServerlessJourney to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming MicroservicesSEASON 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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Jan 23, 2019 • 29min
Using Terraform and Confluent Cloud with Ricardo Ferreira
Tim Berglund hosts Developer Advocate Ricardo Ferreira to discuss the concept of infrastructure as code, as well as the differences between Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef. They also chat about why Terraform is such a big deal, some of the challenges involved with learning it and how Confluent leverages Terraform to achieve multi-cloud support for Confluent Cloud and tools for Confluent Platform.EPISODE LINKSTerraformTools for Confluent Cloud ClustersFully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Jan 8, 2019 • 15min
Ask Confluent #9: With and Without ZooKeeper
Gwen asks: What happens when garbage collection causes Kafka to pause? And how do we run a Schema Registry cluster? We’ll find out in this episode of Ask Confluent.In "Ask Confluent," Gwen Shapira (Software Engineer, Confluent) and guests respond to a handful of questions and comments from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.EPISODE LINKSZooKeeper connection timeout configuration: zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms, as we said, this defaults to 6,000Schema Registry failover instructionsWatch the video version of this podcastSEASON 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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Dec 18, 2018 • 22min
Ask Confluent #8: Guozhang Wang on Kafka Streams Standby Tasks
Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Guozhang Wang, Kafka Streams pioneer and engineering lead at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about standby tasks and how one deserializes message headers. In "Ask Confluent," Gwen Shapira (Data Architect, Confluent) and guests respond to a handful of questions and comments from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.EPISODE LINKSDocumentation of standby tasks, including configsEvents with different schema in same topicHow to populate a database from Kafka and solve the parent-child relation problemWatch the video version of this podcastSEASON 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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Dec 3, 2018 • 24min
Ask Confluent #7: Kafka Consumers and Streams Failover Explained ft. Matthias Sax
Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Matthias J. Sax, a software engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about Kafka consumers and Kafka Streams failover. In "Ask Confluent," Gwen Shapira (Data Architect, Confluent) and guests respond to a handful of questions and comments from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.EPISODE LINKSWatch the video version of this podcastSEASON 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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.

Nov 5, 2018 • 22min
Ask Confluent #6: Kafka, Partitions, and Exactly Once ft. Jason Gustafson
Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Jason Gustafson, a Kafka PMC member and engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about the big questions on Kafka architecture— number of partitions and exactly once. In "Ask Confluent," Gwen Shapira (Data Architect, Confluent) and guests respond to a handful of questions and comments from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.EPISODE LINKSHardening Kafka ReplicationKafka open issuesWatch the video version of this podcastSEASON 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 podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.


