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.

Neil Avery explores the intersection between FaaS and event streaming applications, the pros and cons of FaaS, important considerations when building streaming applications and five rules that will help you understand how FaaS fits with the event streaming application.

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.

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.

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.