February 9, 2026 | Episode 18

Fail Fast & Ship It with Jeremy Custenborder | Ep. 18

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Viktor Gamov talks to Jeremy Custenborder (Confluent) about his career in large-scale systems. Jeremy’s first job: paper boy. His challenge: keeping MySpace running at a massive pre-cloud scale while building the tools that didn’t exist yet and learning to fail fast.

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Episode 18February 14, 2019 | 41 min

The Future of Serverless and Streaming with Neil Avery

Neil Avery explores the intersection between FaaS and event streaming applications, the pros and cons of FaaS, important considerations when building streaming applications and five rules that will help you understand how FaaS fits with the event streaming application.

Episode 19February 20, 2019 | 21 min

Ask Confluent #10: Cooperative Rebalances for Kafka Connect ft. Konstantine Karantasis

Gwen Shapira speaks with Konstantine Karantasis, software engineer at Confluent, about the latest improvements to Kafka Connect and how to run the Confluent CLI on Windows.

Episode 20February 25, 2019 | 20 min

Splitting and Routing Events with KSQL ft. Pascal Vantrepote

Tim Berglund chats with Systems Engineer Pascal Vantrepote about the KSQL recipe he created based on a real-life customer use case in the financial services industry. They also discuss the advantages of KSQL, including no Java coding required.

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