January 19, 2026 | Episode 15

Hacking Kafka Streams with Sophie Blee‑Goldman | Ep. 15

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Tim Berglund talks to Sophie Blee-Goldman (Responsive) about her career in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. Sophie’s first job: interning at Google. Her challenge: helping a hyper-growth customer whose Kafka Streams app was about to hit partition-based scalability limits.


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