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Every long episode from Confluent Developer, read in minutes: the key takeaways, the chapters, and a digest of the whole conversation. A channel for developers, by developers. Confluent Developer provides comprehensive resources for developers looking to learn about Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and other technologies related to the broader Data Streaming Platform. Content on…

Inside OpenAI’s Streaming Backbone with Aravind Suresh | Ep. 24 | Confluent Developer Podcast

OpenAI's streaming backbone uses abstractions and automation to manage 10x scale and deliver reliable infrastructure for AI products, prioritizing user experience over complex primitives.

March 23, 2026

From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22 | Confluent Developer Podcast

Principal Engineer Sage Pierce discusses scaling through others and the challenges of event-driven views in microservice architectures, introducing the IMI pattern.

March 9, 2026

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

Discover how GPU scheduling and variability-aware techniques are transforming AI workloads in cutting-edge data centers with Bryan Oliver.

January 26, 2026

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

Sophie Blee-Goldman shares how her team hacked Kafka Streams to overcome partitioning limits by implementing an async processor wrapper to enable parallel processing within partitions.

January 19, 2026

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

Transforming disparate systems into a seamless provisioning process is crucial in enterprise software development, as highlighted by Diraj Suri's experiences.

January 12, 2026