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May 4, 2026 | Episode 29

Being Wrong in the Right Direction with Caleb Grillo | Ep. 29

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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.

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Episode 29April 22, 2019 | 47 min

Diving into Exactly Once Semantics with Guozhang Wang

Kafka Streams Engineer Guozhang Wang walks through the implementation of transactional messaging in Kafka in some detail, including the idempotent producer API, the transaction coordinator responsible for managing the transaction log and consumer configurations.

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Episode 31May 8, 2019 | 33 min

Ask Confluent #13: Machine Learning with Kai Waehner

Gwen and Kai chat about machine learning architectures, and whether software engineers and data science can learn to get along.

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Episode 32May 16, 2019 | 50 min

Chris Riccomini on the History of Apache Kafka and Stream Processing

Chris Riccomini tells us how Apache Kafka® and the stream processing framework Samza came about, and also what he’s doing these days at WePay—building systems that use Kafka as a primary datastore.

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