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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 ...

149 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...

1,199 views • 18 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...

218 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...

1,086 views • 24 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...

277 views • 10 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...

1,184 views • 38 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...

916 views • 5 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...

240 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...

1,070 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...

296 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...

1,419 views • 28 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...

237 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...

1,407 views • 19 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...

640 views • 34 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...

192 views • 4 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...

111 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 ...

999 views • 32 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 ...

1,228 views • 25 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 ...

415 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 ...

263 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...

314 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...

3,558 views • 170 likes • 0 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...

47,773 views • 1,316 likes • 31 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...

290 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...

665 views • 10 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...

267 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 ...

2,009 views • 77 likes • 1 comments • July 29, 2025

A very special place on the internet.

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

2,490 views • 24 likes • 0 comments • July 28, 2025

A very special place on the internet.

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

426 views • 19 likes • 3 comments • July 28, 2025

Streaming Frontiers - S01E05 - How to Query a Stream?

The Streaming Data Paradox: Your Kafka streams handle millions of events per second, but the moment you need to query that data, you're back to building complex ETL pipelines and managing fragmente...

330 views • 4 likes • 0 comments • July 24, 2025

Apache Flink Queries on Dedicated PrivateLink Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud

Docs: https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/networking/ccloud-console-access.html | Viktor Gamov (Developer Relations, Confluent) demonstrates how to configure and query a dedicated Apache Kafka ...

729 views • 10 likes • 0 comments • July 16, 2025

Streaming Frontiers - S01E04 - Catching up with VS Code

Join Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate, as he demonstrates how Confluent's VS Code extension eliminates context switching and brings AI-powered assistance directly to developers building r...

366 views • 12 likes • 0 comments • June 19, 2025

Serverless Streaming Pipelines with Delta Live Tables & Kafka (Databricks) | Current 2025

Real-time data processing is at the heart of modern applications, demanding scalability, reliability, and efficiency. This talk showcases how Delta Live Tables (DLT), Apache Kafka®, and serverless ...

870 views • 7 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Transforming APIs into an Event Source with Kafka Streams (Platformatory) | Current 2025

In this session, we will present an alternative to the outbox pattern that leverages standard API proxies / gateway solutions to process and push events to Apache Kafka®, as they occur in the API d...

417 views • 5 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Authentication in Confluent Cloud Using OAuth/OIDC with Okta (Platformatory) | Current 2025

By the end of the session, participants will understand how to implement OAuth 2.0 and OIDC to streamline authentication, improve security, and simplify Apache Kafka® client access management in en...

316 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Modernizing Kafka at Scale: From Legacy to New Hardware SKUs (Uber) | Current 2025

Learn how we overcame migration challenges using strategies like tiered storage and cluster rebalance to successfully migrate our Apache Kafka® infrastructure at Uber. Within Uber, we have numerou...

146 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Streaming Aggregations at Scale Using Kafka and Kafka Streams (Sharechat) | Current 2025

This talk discusses the challenges of building a platform, managing an in-house Apache Kafka® setup, and the lessons learned from tuning Kafka Streams. Furthermore, we discuss how we optimised the ...

230 views • 6 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Inside Uber's Large-Scale Real-Time Analytics Platform | Current 2025

In this talk, we cover the matured architecture for realtime analytics ecosystem powering Uber’s usecases that serve up to 10s of thousands of queries/sec, several million writes/sec and host up to...

651 views • 5 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Towards Manufacturing 5.0: Edge IoT with Sparkplug & Kafka (Thoughtworks, John Deere) | Current 2025

In this talk, we present our Manufacturing IoT Edge platform, designed to fulfil the vision of Manufacturing 5.0, using open-source tools and standard protocols like MQTT, Sparkplug, Apache Kafka®,...

161 views • 8 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Breaking the Kubernetes Barrier: Deploying Kafka Across Clusters (IBM) | Current 2025

This session explores practical methodologies and principles for deploying Apache Kafka® across Kubernetes clusters, focusing on broker and controller distribution, fault tolerance, scalability, cr...

131 views • 2 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

The IDE That Speaks Kafka: Mastering Streams in VS Code (Confluent) | Current 2025

Apache Kafka® has become an essential technology for modern data streaming applications. However, its learning curve can be steep for developers. This presentation will help you overcome the everyd...

223 views • 7 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Empowering AI Agents with Real-Time Insights (Startree) | Current 2025

Scarlet 3 - Core Theme: - Intro to Real time Analytics - Pinot - Intro to RAG, Compound AI Systems - Integration of AI agents to Streaming, Real time systems and why they are necessary - Discussio...

152 views • 2 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Building a Data Platform Solo for Thousands of Engineers in One Year (DataExpert.io) | Current 2025

Zach built an entire data platform by himself that thousands of data engineers use each year. In this talk, he goes through how he did it and the choices and lessons he learned along the way! – C...

361 views • 13 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Orchestrating Global Data Migrations with Kafka Service Mesh (Atlassian) | Current 2025

In this session, we explore the inner workings of this Orchestrator, how it leverages Apache Kafka®’s (possibly less popular) capabilities to address modern distributed stream-based data migration ...

50 views • 1 likes • 1 comments • June 09, 2025

Building Agent Systems with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink (Confluent) | Current 2025

AI-powered agent systems are becoming essential for automation, personalization, and real-time decision-making. But how do we ensure that these agents can process information continuously, maintain...

724 views • 15 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Real-Time Analytics, Predictions, and Recommendations with Confluent (Swiggy) | Current 2025

Swiggy, India’s leading food delivery platform, processes millions of messages every second to power real-time recommendations, predictions, order tracking, and personalized user experiences. In th...

58 views • 1 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Unifying Kafka & Relational Databases for Event Streaming (Oracle) | Current 2025

This talk describes how to close the gap between Apache Kafka® topics and database tables by providing a customized queuing abstraction inside the database that can be accessed via both SQL and Kaf...

131 views • 3 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025

Queues for Kafka (Confluent) | Current 2025

Event streaming is great but sometimes it’s easier to use a queue, especially when parallel consumption is more important than ordering. Wouldn't it be great if you had the option of consuming your...

471 views • 14 likes • 0 comments • June 09, 2025