December 8, 2025 | Episode 11

Adventures in Data Infrastructure with Gwen Shapira | Ep. 11

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Adi Polak talks to Gwen Shapira (Nile) about her career in databases and data infrastructure. Gwen’s first job: a side hustle fixing computers. Her challenge: figuring out why a production report at HP slowed down dramatically after daylight saving time.

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Episode 11September 27, 2018 | 49 min

Kafka Streams in Action with Bill Bejeck

Tim Berglund interviews Bill Bejeck about the Kafka Streams API and his new book, "Kafka Streams in Action."

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Episode 12October 18, 2018 | 34 min

Kafka Summit SF 2018 Panel | Microsoft, Slack, Confluent, University of Cambridge

Neha Narkhede leads a panel discussion at Kafka Summit SF 2018 with Kevin Scott (CTO, Microsoft), Julia Grace (Head of Infrastructure Engineering, Slack), Martin Kleppman (Researcher, U. of Cambridge), Jay Kreps (co-founder and CEO, Confluent), and Neha Narkhede (Co-founder and CTO at Confluent).

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Episode 13November 5, 2018 | 22 min

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.

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