December 1, 2025 | Episode 10

Decreasing Java Build Times with Pratik Patel | Ep. 10

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Tim Berglund talks to Pratik Patel (Azul Systems) about his career in developer relations and Java. Pratik’s first job: computer lab assistant at UNC Chapel Hill. His challenge: working at a large enterprise with manual, slow build processes and transforming them through automation.

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Episode 10September 20, 2018 | 29 min

Joins in KSQL 5.0 with Hojjat Jafarpour

KSQL 5.0 now supports stream-stream, stream-table and table-table joins. Tim interviews Hojjat Jafarpour about all three join types.

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."

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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