October 27, 2025 | Episode 6

How Kafka Expert Robin Moffat Tackles Open Source Problems | Ep. 6

  • Notes

Today, Viktor Gamov talks to his colleague Robin Moffat (Confluent) about his career in data engineering. His first job: paperboy. His challenge: working at a retailer with Oracle materialized views as well as teaching others how to productively approach Kafka’s internal systems.

Blog posts mentioned in the podcast:
► Oracle Materialized Views troubleshooting: https://rnm1978.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/materialised-views-pct-partition-truncation/
► Kafka Listeners explained: https://rmoff.net/2018/08/02/kafka-listeners-explained/
► Kafka Connect converters: https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-connect-deep-dive-converters-serialization-explained/

Follow Robin:
► Blog: https://rmoff.net/
► X: https://twitter.com/rmoff/
► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rmoff.net

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