January 26, 2026 | Episode 16

Inside $3M GPU Racks: Powering Modern AI with Bryan Oliver | Ep. 16

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Adi Polak talks to Bryan Oliver (Thoughtworks) about his career in platform engineering and large-scale AI infrastructure. Bryan’s first job: building pools and teaching swimming lessons. His challenge: running large-scale GPU data centers while keeping AI workloads predictable and reliable.

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Episode 16January 8, 2019 | 15 min

Ask Confluent #9: With and Without ZooKeeper

Gwen asks: What happens when garbage collection causes Kafka to pause? And how do we run a Schema Registry cluster? We’ll find out in this episode of Ask Confluent.

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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.

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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.

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