January 12, 2026 | Episode 14

Turning Chaos into Push-Button Provisioning with Dhiraj Suri| Ep. 14

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Viktor Gamov talks to Dhiraj Suri (Confluent) about his career in systems engineering and stream governance. Dhiraj’s first job: software developer at NetApp. His challenge: working at Splunk to stitch together disparate systems into an event-driven provisioning platform.

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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.

Episode 15December 18, 2018 | 22 min

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.

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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