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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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.

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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.

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