December 15, 2025 | Episode 12

From Early Startups to Product Leadership with Mike Agnich | Ep. 12

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Tim Berglund talks to Mike Agnich (Confluent) about his career in product leadership and startups. Mike’s first job: refereeing youth basketball. His challenge: leading product across connectors, governance, stream processing, and partnerships at Confluent.

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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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Episode 13November 5, 2018 | 22 min

Ask Confluent #6: Kafka, Partitions, and Exactly Once ft. Jason Gustafson

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Jason Gustafson, a Kafka PMC member and engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about the big questions on Kafka architecture—number of partitions and exactly once.

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Episode 14December 3, 2018 | 23 min

Ask Confluent #7: Kafka Consumers and Streams Failover Explained ft. Matthias Sax

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Matthias J. Sax, a software engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about Kafka consumers and Kafka Streams failover.

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