Episode 15December 18, 2018 | 22 min
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.
Episode 14January 12, 2026 | 21 min
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Episode 14December 3, 2018 | 23 min
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.
Episode 13January 5, 2026 | 16 min
The Late Night Hack That Changed Daniel Hinojosa's Career | Ep. 13
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