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From “This May Never Work” to WarpStream with Richie Artoul | Ep. 17 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Tim Berglund talks to Richie Artoul (WarpStream/Confluent) about his career in data infrastructure. Richie’s first job: working at Howie’s Game Shack, a w...

67 views • 1 likes • 0 comments • February 02, 2026

Inside $3M GPU Racks: Powering Modern AI with Bryan Oliver | Ep. 16 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Adi Polak talks to Bryan Oliver (Thoughtworks) about his career in platform engineering and large-scale AI infrastructure. Bryan’s first job: building poo...

93 views • 0 likes • 0 comments • January 26, 2026

Hacking Kafka Streams with Sophie Blee‑Goldman | Ep. 15 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Tim Berglund talks to Sophie Blee-Goldman (Responsive) about her career in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. Sophie’s first job: interning at Goo...

442 views • 8 likes • 1 comments • January 19, 2026

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

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Viktor Gamov talks to Dhiraj Suri (Confluent) about his career in systems engineering and stream governance. Dhiraj’s first job: software developer at Net...

389 views • 15 likes • 0 comments • January 12, 2026

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

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Tim Berglund talks to Daniel Hinojosa (an independent consultant) about his career in software development, data engineering, and event-driven architectur...

200 views • 0 likes • 0 comments • January 05, 2026

Streaming Frontiers - S01E010 - Captain's Log: Stardate 2025

Thanks for tuning into Streaming Frontiers in 2025! Whether you're a data streaming engineer, Kafka enthusiast, or just curious about where real-time data is headed, this episode is for you. In th...

151 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • December 18, 2025

From Early Startups to Product Leadership with Mike Agnich | Ep. 12 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Tim Berglund talks to Mike Agnich (Confluent) about his career in product leadership and startups. Mike’s first job: refereeing youth basketball. His chal...

243 views • 4 likes • 0 comments • December 15, 2025

Queues for Kafka Explained (KIP-932)

Learn more: ​​https://developer.confluent.io/confluent-tutorials/queues-for-kafka/ | Developer Advocate Sandon Jacobs steps to the lightboard to introduce KIP-932 - “Queues for Kafka,” unpacking ho...

1,410 views • 49 likes • 4 comments • December 11, 2025

Adventures in Data Infrastructure with Gwen Shapira | Ep. 11 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Adi Polak talks to Gwen Shapira (Nile) about her career in databases and data infrastructure. Gwen’s first job: a side hustle fixing computers. Her challe...

236 views • 6 likes • 0 comments • December 08, 2025

Decreasing Java Build Times with Pratik Patel | Ep. 10 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Tim Berglund talks to Pratik Patel (Azul Systems) about his career in developer relations and Java. Pratik’s first job: computer lab assistant at UNC Chap...

200 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • December 01, 2025

Streaming Frontiers - S01E09 - Mission Debrief: Building the Current 2025 Developer Keynote Demo

Join Principal Developer Advocate Viktor Gamov for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how they built the demo showcased during the Developer Keynote at Current 2025 in New Orleans (Day 2)! In t...

159 views • 4 likes • 1 comments • November 27, 2025

Data Streaming in the Veldt with Tim Berglund

You know what to do: https://cnfl.io/cert | Tim Berglund (Developer Relations, Confluent) checks in from the Timbavati Nature Reserve in South Africa where he's observing Data Streaming Engineer ce...

660 views • 10 likes • 0 comments • November 20, 2025

Data Streaming in the Veldt with Tim Berglund

You know what to do: https://cnfl.io/cert | Tim Berglund (Developer Relations, Confluent) checks in from the Timbavati Nature Reserve in South Africa where he's observing Data Streaming Engineer ce...

213 views • 8 likes • 1 comments • November 20, 2025

Apache Flink: What it is and how it works.

Try it: https://cnfl.io/flink-lightboard-2025 | Tim Berglund is at the lightboard to break down Apache Flink®. He explains what it is, how to deploy it, why it pairs so well with Apache Kafka®. He...

12,990 views • 266 likes • 6 comments • November 18, 2025

Reimagining Stream Processing with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 9 | Confluent Developer

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Viktor Gamov talks to Matthias J. Sax (Confluent) about his career in stream processing and, specifically, Kafka Streams. Matthias’ first job: an electric...

429 views • 12 likes • 4 comments • November 17, 2025

How Time Kills All Deals in Pre-Sales with Rachel Pedreschi | Ep. 8 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | In this episode, Tim Berglund talks to his guest, Rachel Pedreschi (DeltaStream), about her career in pre-sales engineering. Her first job: rectory office...

1,253 views • 9 likes • 0 comments • November 10, 2025

How Time Kills All Deals in Pre-Sales with Rachel Pedreschi | Ep. 8 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | In this episode, Tim Berglund talks to his guest, Rachel Pedreschi (DeltaStream), about her career in pre-sales engineering. Her first job: rectory office...

225 views • 7 likes • 0 comments • November 10, 2025

Scaling AI in Engineering with Peter Bell | Ep. 7 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Today, Adi Polak talks to her guest, Peter Bell (gather.dev), about his career in software engineering leadership, CTO community building, and AI-driven d...

312 views • 6 likes • 0 comments • November 03, 2025

How Kafka Expert Robin Moffatt Tackles Open Source Problems | Ep. 6 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Today, Viktor Gamov talks to his colleague Robin Moffatt (Confluent) about his career in data engineering. His first job: paperboy. His challenge: working...

335 views • 14 likes • 3 comments • October 27, 2025

Streaming Frontiers - S01E08 - How to Query a Stream - Real-time OLAP - Analytics That Never Sleep

Remember when real-time analytics meant dashboards that refreshed every 15 minutes? Those days are over. Modern businesses demand analytics that move at the speed of their operations. When a fraud ...

203 views • 4 likes • 0 comments • October 23, 2025

Building Parquet into Apache Pinot ft. Neha Pawar | Ep. 5 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Today, Tim Berglund talks to Neha Pawar (StarTree) about her career in real-time analytics and open source database engineering. Her first job: a year-lon...

1,348 views • 21 likes • 1 comments • October 21, 2025

Building Parquet into Apache Pinot ft. Neha Pawar | Ep. 5 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Today, Tim Berglund talks to Neha Pawar (StarTree) about her career in real-time analytics and open source database engineering. Her first job: a year-lon...

371 views • 12 likes • 0 comments • October 20, 2025

The Fix That Secured 1000s of Credit Cards ft. Brian Sletten | Ep. 4 | Confluent Developer Pod

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | In this episode, Tim talks to Brian Sletten, (Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.), about his career in software development. His/Her first job: working at a small c...

1,116 views • 25 likes • 1 comments • October 13, 2025

The Fix That Secured 1000s of Credit Cards ft. Brian Sletten | Ep. 4 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | In this episode, Tim talks to Brian Sletten (Bosatsu Consulting) about his career in software development. His first job: working at a small communication...

347 views • 11 likes • 1 comments • October 13, 2025

What are Streaming Agents on Apache Flink?

https://confluent.io/product/streaming-agents | Tim Berglund is at the lightboard to explain how to utilize Apache Flink® with your streaming agents. He describes how to build intelligent, event-dr...

2,854 views • 80 likes • 2 comments • October 08, 2025

How WarpStream Agent Groups help with Kafka demand spikes

https://www.warpstream.com/agent-groups | Viktor Gamov is at the lightboard to illustrate how WarpStream Agent Groups help Apache Kafka during unpredictable demand spikes. While traditional Kafka d...

8,226 views • 7 likes • 0 comments • October 08, 2025

How Viktor Gamov Stays Curious as Tech Rapidly Evolves | Ep. 3 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Adi Polak interviews her co-host, Viktor Gamov, about his career’s evolution from distributed systems to streaming technology. Viktor’s first job: apple p...

291 views • 11 likes • 0 comments • October 06, 2025

Becoming a Keynote Conference Speaker ft. Tim Berglund | Ep. 2 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Viktor Gamov interviews his co-host, Tim Berglund, about his career in the world of streaming data. Tim’s first job: Burger King broiler steamer. His chal...

1,089 views • 10 likes • 0 comments • October 04, 2025

How Tim Berglund Found His Calling | Ep. 2 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Viktor Gamov interviews his co-host, Tim Berglund, about his career in the world of streaming data. Tim’s first job: Burger King broiler steamer. His chal...

371 views • 14 likes • 0 comments • September 29, 2025

Confluent vs Competitors (Bare Metalsson uses AI to lower cloud costs)

Under pressure to cut his cloud Kafka costs, on-prem data architect Bare Metalsson turns to AI for advice. One LLM hallucination later, he learns that Confluent Cloud is better, simpler, and guaran...

1,474 views • 29 likes • 0 comments • September 22, 2025

Confluent vs Competitors (Bare Metalsson uses AI to lower cloud costs)

Learn more: https://bit.ly/cflt-price-guarantee | Under pressure to cut his cloud Kafka costs, on-prem data architect Bare Metalsson turns to AI for advice. One LLM hallucination later, he learns t...

280 views • 8 likes • 0 comments • September 22, 2025

Building Real-time Systems for Apple, Nike & more ft. Adi Polak | Ep. 1: Confluent Developer Podcast

► _Watch the linked full video!_ The Confluent Developer Podcast is here! For this first episode, Tim Berglund talks to his co-host, Adi Polak (Confluent), about her career in distributed data syst...

1,440 views • 21 likes • 0 comments • September 22, 2025

Building Real-time Systems for Apple, Nike & more ft. Adi Polak | Ep. 1: Confluent Developer Podcast

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | The Confluent Developer Podcast is here! For this first episode, Tim Berglund talks to his co-host, Adi Polak (Confluent), about her career in distributed...

757 views • 33 likes • 1 comments • September 22, 2025

Streaming Frontiers - S01E07 - How To Query A Stream? Part 3

Viktor Gamov, Developer Advocate at Confluent, takes us on a comprehensive journey from today's battle-tested solutions to tomorrow's game-changing innovations. Part 3: "New Wave: Streaming Databa...

201 views • 5 likes • 0 comments • September 18, 2025

Confluent is cheaper than MSK? (Bare Metalsson uses AI to lower his cloud costs)

Learn more: https://bit.ly/cflt-price-guarantee | Under pressure to cut his cloud Kafka costs, on-prem data architect Bare Metalsson turns to AI for advice. One LLM hallucination later, he learns t...

1,626 views • 31 likes • 2 comments • September 17, 2025

Confluent vs MSK (Bare Metalsson uses AI to lower his cloud costs)

Learn more: https://bit.ly/cflt-price-guarantee | Under pressure to cut his cloud Kafka costs, on-prem data architect Bare Metalsson turns to AI for advice. One LLM hallucination later, he learns t...

433 views • 18 likes • 4 comments • September 17, 2025

The Community: Who you'll meet at Current NOLA 2025

Join us at Current NOLA: https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans | The community orbits around incredible data streaming technologies, but it is illuminated by the awesome people who share their k...

120 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • September 10, 2025

Apache Kafka 4.1 | Enhanced Stability, New OAuth Support, Scalable Queues, Broker-Side Rebalancing

Blog: https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-apache-kafka-4-1/ | Sandon Jacobs (Senior Developer Advocate, Confluent) is here to highlight the latest features in Apache Kafka 4.1, following the ...

1,330 views • 37 likes • 1 comments • September 04, 2025

We're back! Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov #confluent #podcast

We're back with a new name, a new format, and new hosts. Welcome to the Confluent Developer Podcast, where we talk to software developers of all stripes about some of the most interesting problems ...

1,246 views • 26 likes • 3 comments • September 02, 2025

We're back! Confluent Developer Podcast ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov

Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Hi, I'm Tim Berglund. It's been about four years since I've been podcasting at Confluent, and "Streaming Audio" has been on hiatus for a little more than ...

437 views • 13 likes • 3 comments • September 02, 2025

Streaming Frontiers - S01E06 - How To Query A Stream? Part 2

Viktor Gamov, Developer Advocate at Confluent, takes us on a comprehensive journey from today's battle-tested solutions to tomorrow's game-changing innovations. Part 2: "Beyond Basics: From Kafka ...

271 views • 9 likes • 0 comments • August 28, 2025

Using AWS IAM AssumeRole in Confluent Cloud

https://confluent.io | Want a secure, simple way to connect Confluent Cloud to your AWS account? In this quick walkthrough, Dan Weston shows how to use AWS IAM roles to link Confluent Cloud with se...

490 views • 9 likes • 0 comments • August 14, 2025

Apache Kafka in 2025 and where it’s going.

► _Watch the linked full video!_ Tim Berglund is back at the lightboard with a fresh take on his most popular video of all-time: “What is Apache Kafka?” Now, it's time for a fresh look at where Kaf...

7,067 views • 259 likes • 1 comments • August 12, 2025

Apache Kafka: What it is and where it’s going.

https://developer.confluent.io | Tim Berglund is back at the lightboard with a fresh take on his most popular video of all-time: “What is Apache Kafka?” In the six years since we released that vide...

62,411 views • 1,749 likes • 40 comments • August 12, 2025

Using the BigQuery Sink V2 Connector in Confluent Cloud

https://confluent.io | Set your streaming data free with Google BigQuery and Confluent Cloud! In this video, Dan Weston shows how to quickly connect Apache Kafka topics to BigQuery using the update...

376 views • 7 likes • 0 comments • August 07, 2025

Using EXPLAIN for Troubleshooting | Apache Flink SQL

https://cnfl.io/apache-flink-sql-module-1 | The EXPLAIN command is your first line of defense for diagnosing problems with Apache Flink SQL. It’s also your ally in staying out of trouble in the fir...

847 views • 12 likes • 1 comments • August 05, 2025

Setting Custom Offsets for Source and Sink Connectors in Confluent Cloud

https://confluent.io | Curious about how to take control of your data pipelines in Confluent Cloud? Join Dan Weston as he walks you through setting custom offsets for source and sync connectors usi...

330 views • 6 likes • 0 comments • July 31, 2025

How to Stream Data from PostgreSQL to Kafka

More: https://developer.confluent.io/ | Unlock the power of real-time data with Confluent and the Debezium v2 Connector for PostgreSQL! This 20-minute tutorial shows you how to seamlessly capture ...

3,011 views • 109 likes • 4 comments • July 29, 2025

A very special place on the internet.

Viktor says go to https://developer.confluent.io

2,500 views • 23 likes • 0 comments • July 28, 2025

A very special place on the internet.

Viktor says go to https://developer.confluent.io

442 views • 20 likes • 3 comments • July 28, 2025