January 5, 2026 | Episode 13

The Late Night Hack That Changed Daniel Hinojosa's Career | Ep. 13

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Tim Berglund talks to Daniel Hinojosa (an independent consultant) about his career in software development, data engineering, and event-driven architecture. Daniel’s first job: Sears credit card telemarketing. His challenge: working at a company with internal bad blood and being called at 11 p.m. to pull off a late night “security research” hack on Windows and Lotus Notes systems.

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Episode 13November 5, 2018 | 22 min

Ask Confluent #6: Kafka, Partitions, and Exactly Once ft. Jason Gustafson

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Jason Gustafson, a Kafka PMC member and engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about the big questions on Kafka architecture—number of partitions and exactly once.

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Episode 14December 3, 2018 | 23 min

Ask Confluent #7: Kafka Consumers and Streams Failover Explained ft. Matthias Sax

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Matthias J. Sax, a software engineer at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about Kafka consumers and Kafka Streams failover.

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Ask Confluent #8: Guozhang Wang on Kafka Streams Standby Tasks

Gwen is joined in studio by special guest Guozhang Wang, Kafka Streams pioneer and engineering lead at Confluent. He’ll talk to us about standby tasks and how one deserializes message headers.

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