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May 18, 2026 | Episode 30

How AI Is Changing Apache Iceberg with Russell Spitzer | Ep. 30

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Adi Polak talks to Russell Spitzer (Snowflake) about his career in open source data infrastructure. Russell’s first job: software engineer in test at DataStax. His challenge: making Apache Iceberg ready for AI and streaming.

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Ask Confluent #13: Machine Learning with Kai Waehner

Gwen and Kai chat about machine learning architectures, and whether software engineers and data science can learn to get along.

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Episode 32May 16, 2019 | 50 min

Chris Riccomini on the History of Apache Kafka and Stream Processing

Chris Riccomini tells us how Apache Kafka® and the stream processing framework Samza came about, and also what he’s doing these days at WePay—building systems that use Kafka as a primary datastore.

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Episode 33May 20, 2019 | 42 min

Testing Kafka Streams Applications with Viktor Gamov

Tim Berglund is joined by Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent) to discuss various approaches to testing Kafka Streams applications.

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