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 22.06.2026 31min

  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 while also helping shape major efforts like diskless Kafka, disaster recovery, and the project’s broader evolution. ► Queues for Kafka Explained (KIP-932): https://youtu.be/Wb0xyqgaIqw SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced ...
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  Agent Mesh: A Microservice With a Brain ft John Miller & Eric Broda | Ep. 33 11.06.2026 32min

  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 processes. 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...
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  10 Years of Kafka Streams with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 32 08.06.2026 29min

  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, and what comes next. 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 whereve...
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  Gunnar Morling Built a New Parquet Engine with AI | Ep. 31 01.06.2026 42min

  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 Parquet engine for Java with minimal dependencies. ► The One Billion Row Challenge blog post: https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/ SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Pete...
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  How AI Is Changing Apache Iceberg with Russell Spitzer | Ep. 30 18.05.2026 40min

  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 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. ▶️ Su...
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  Being Wrong in the Right Direction with Caleb Grillo | Ep. 29 04.05.2026 35min

  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 trade latency for huge cost savings. 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 Deve...
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  Building Banking Systems with Kafka Streams with Mateo Rojas | Ep. 28 20.04.2026 44min

  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 workflow engine and deciding whether it should be the source of truth. 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 &n...
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  The AI Impact on the Developer Future with Joseph Morais | Ep. 27 13.04.2026 35min

  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: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/software-architecture-with-grady-booch 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 Ph...
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  Tech vs. People: The Hardest Problem with Will LaForest | Ep. 26 06.04.2026 28min

  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 about. 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....
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  How Maven Changed Java Forever with Baruch Sadogursky | Ep. 25 30.03.2026 38min

  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 SQL-oriented model. 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 list...
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  Inside OpenAI’s Streaming Backbone with Aravind Suresh | Ep. 24 23.03.2026 30min

  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 backbone. 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 ...
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  The 1 Billion Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling | Ep. 23 16.03.2026 30min

  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 Challenge. 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 ...
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  From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22 09.03.2026 34min

  Adi Polak talks to Sage Pierce (Indeed) about his career in software engineering and event-driven architectures. Sage’s first job: Java Swing development at a Department of Defense–affiliated research lab. His challenge: working at Indeed on event-driven views and IMI to join data across domains in a polyglot microservices world. Sage's Atleon project: https://github.com/atleon SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter ...
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  From Coding Machines to Leading Humans ft. Leonid Igolnik | Ep. 21 02.03.2026 36min

  Viktor Gamov talks to Leonid Igolnik (Former CTO at Clari) about his career in B2B SaaS engineering leadership. Leonid’s first job: teaching kids Pascal. His challenge: changing buyer behavior and scale complex systems. Books mentioned: ► Influence without Authority: https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Without-Authority-Allan-Cohen/dp/0471463302 ► Drive: https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/ ► Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking: https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0...
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  Killing Clusters & Orchestrating Chaos with Colt McNealy | Ep. 20 23.02.2026 38min

  Tim Berglund talks to Colt McNealy (LittleHorse Enterprises) about his career in distributed systems. Colt’s first job: software engineer at a real estate company. His challenge: working in a complex microservices environment and turning that pain into Little Horse. Colt's Current 2024 talk: https://current.confluent.io/2024-sessions/kafka-streams-as-a-data-store-for-a-workflow-engine Gunnar Morling's blog: https://www.morling.dev/blog/ Jack Vanlightly's blog: https://jack-vanlightly.com/ SE...
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  Deleting Architecture for Better Systems ft. Daniel Doubrovkine | Ep. 19 16.02.2026 26min

  Adi Polak talks to Daniel Doubrovkine (Shopify) about his career building data‑intensive systems. Daniel’s first job: delivering pharmacy medications by bike. His challenge: building Artsy’s Art Genome and auctions as simple as possible. 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 podcast...
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  Fail Fast & Ship It with Jeremy Custenborder | Ep. 18 09.02.2026 27min

  Viktor Gamov talks to Jeremy Custenborder (Confluent) about his career in large-scale systems. Jeremy’s first job: paper boy. His challenge: keeping MySpace running at a massive pre-cloud scale while building the tools that didn’t exist yet and learning to fail fast. 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 ...
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  From “This May Never Work” to WarpStream with Richie Artoul | Ep. 17 02.02.2026 30min

  Tim Berglund talks to Richie Artoul (WarpStream/Confluent) about his career in data infrastructure. Richie’s first job: working at Howie’s Game Shack, a walk‑in LAN gaming cafe. His challenge: working at Datadog on a new log storage system. 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 podc...
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  Inside $3M GPU Racks: Powering Modern AI with Bryan Oliver | Ep. 16 26.01.2026 30min

  Adi Polak talks to Bryan Oliver (Thoughtworks) about his career in platform engineering and large-scale AI infrastructure. Bryan’s first job: building pools and teaching swimming lessons. His challenge: running large-scale GPU data centers while keeping AI workloads predictable and reliable. 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 🎧 Subscrib...
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  Hacking Kafka Streams with Sophie Blee‑Goldman | Ep. 15 19.01.2026 34min

  Tim Berglund talks to Sophie Blee-Goldman (Responsive) about her career in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. Sophie’s first job: interning at Google. Her challenge: helping a hyper-growth customer whose Kafka Streams app was about to hit partition-based scalability limits. 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 Con...