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March 16, 2026 | Episode 23

The 1 Billion Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling | Ep. 23

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Tim Berglund talks to Gunnar Morling (Confluent) about his career in open source Java and data streaming. Gunnar’s first job: a student PHP developer in AMD’s e-learning group. His challenge: working at Decodable on the 1 Billion Row Challenge.

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Episode 23March 11, 2019 | 41 min

Containerized Apache Kafka On Kubernetes with Viktor Gamov

Tim Berglund and Viktor Gamov address some of the challenges and pitfalls of managing Kafka on Kubernetes at scale. They also share lessons learned from the development of the Confluent Operator for Kubernetes.

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.

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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