Happy 100th episode! To celebrate, Ben Stopford asks Tim a range of questions from his career, his time at Confluent, Marvel vs. DC, and what he looks for in a new hire, to how to nail your next conference talk.

Gaining trust in your product, process, and the way you develop code requires the ability to explain those things well. Kelsey Hightower reflects on the journey that brought him to where he is today and how Kubernetes has evolved over the years too, including what makes Kubernetes so successful.

If you’ve ever wondered what Apache Kafka® is, what it’s used for, or wanted to learn Kafka architecture and all its components, buckle up! In today’s episode, Michael Noll and Tim Berglund discuss a series of fundamental questions: What is Kafka? What is an event? How do we organize and store events? And what is Kafka Streams?

There are two primary industries within the Internet of Things (IoT): industrial IoT (IIoT) and consumer IoT (CIoT), both of which can benefit from the Kafka ecosystem, including Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect.. Kai Waehner shares example use cases where he’s seen IoT integration in action, specifically focusing on Walmart and its real-time customer integration using the Walmart app.

Confluent Platform 5.5 is out! This release includes improved schema management, Schema Registry support for Protobuf and JSON, better support for languages other than Java within the sphere of librdkafka, and an upgrade to ksqlDB.