Tim Berglund and Michael Drogalis talk about all things stream processing: why it’s complex, how it has evolved, and what’s on the horizon to make it simpler.

Chris Riccomini tells us how Apache Kafka® and the stream processing framework Samza came about, and also what he’s doing these days at WePay—building systems that use Kafka as a primary datastore.

Gwen and Kai chat about machine learning architectures, and whether software engineers and data science can learn to get along.