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March 23, 2026 | Episode 24

Inside OpenAI’s Streaming Backbone with Aravind Suresh | Ep. 24

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Adi Polak talks to Aravind Suresh (OpenAI) about his career in distributed systems and real-time streaming. Arvind’s first job: coding at school. His challenge: turning OpenAI’s fragile Kafka setup into a reliable, multi-region streaming backbone.

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Episode 24March 18, 2019 | 36 min

It’s Time for Streaming to Have a Maturity Model ft. Nick Dearden

Nick Dearden explains the five stages of streaming maturity, from the first streaming project you ever build all the way to a state where an entire organization is transformed to think in terms of real-time, event-driven systems.

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Episode 25March 26, 2019 | 14 min

Ask Confluent #11: More Services, More Metrics, More Fun

Do metrics for detecting clients from old versions actually exist? Or is Gwen making features up? This and more useful advice is coming up on today's episode of Ask Confluent.

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Episode 26April 3, 2019 | 46 min

Magnus Edenhill on librdkafka 1.0

librdkafka has finally reached 1.0! Several important new features include the idempotent producer, sparse broker connections, support for the vaunted KIP-62 and a complete makeover for the C#/.NET client.

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