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April 20, 2026 | Episode 28

Building Banking Systems with Kafka Streams with Mateo Rojas | Ep. 28

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Adi Polak talks to Mateo Rojas (LittleHorse) about his career working with Kafka Streams. Mateo’s first job: building a real-money policy management platform on early Kafka Streams. His challenge: working at LittleHorse with Kafka as a workflow engine and deciding whether it should be the source of truth.

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Episode 28April 17, 2019 | 22 min

Ask Confluent #12: In Search of the Lost Offsets

Stanislav Kozlovski joins us to discuss common pitfalls when using Kafka consumers and a new KIP that promises to make consumer restarts much smoother.

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.

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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