February 2, 2026 | Episode 17

From “This May Never Work” to WarpStream with Richie Artoul | Ep. 17

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Tim Berglund talks to Richie Artoul (WarpStream/Confluent) about his career in data infrastructure. Richie’s first job: working at Howie’s Game Shack, a walk‑in LAN gaming cafe. His challenge: working at Datadog on a new log storage system.

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Episode 17January 23, 2019 | 28 min

Using Terraform and Confluent Cloud with Ricardo Ferreira

Tim Berglund hosts Developer Advocate Ricardo Ferreira to discuss the concept of infrastructure as code, as well as the differences between Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef.

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.

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