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Streaming Audio: Apache Kafka® & Real-Time Data

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®

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Streaming Audio features all things Apache Kafka®, Confluent, real-time data, and the cloud. We cover frequently asked questions, best practices, and use cases from the Kafka community—from Kafka connectors and distributed systems, to data mesh, data integration, modern data architectures, and data mesh built with Confluent and cloud Kafka as a service. Join our hosts as they stream through a series of interviews, stories, and use cases with guests from the data streaming industry. Apache®️, ...
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Cloud Commute

simplyblock

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Cloud Commute is your weekly 25-30 minutes podcast, talking about all things cloud, technology, storage, security, Kubernetes, and more. Joined by veteran guests from the industry, host Chris Engelbert explores new tools, ecosystem developments and upcoming releases. If you’re a tech enthusiast, working in DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, or engineering, this is the podcast for you. Make your commute worthwhile and join us on the journey of technology.
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Learn what every engineer should know about building and scaling SaaS products from leaders who built world-class SaaS. We will share lessons learned, advice, tips, and great stories. This podcast is part of the SaaS community. You can also join our Slack https://launchpass.com/all-about-saas and follow our Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZuLNqvV4oUMVyNq70mFF0g
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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Java evangelist Bruno Souza shares insights on adapting to cloud and AI trends, navigating the hidden job market, and building career visibility. He emphasizes hands-on learning and applying new technologies in real projects. Souza also introduces his Mentorship Hub, aimed at helping developers advance their career…
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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Michele Mancioppi, Head of Product at Dash0, discusses how Dash0 enhances Kubernetes-native observability using OpenTelemetry. He and Chris Engelbert explore the importance of context in telemetry data and how standardization simplifies observability. Mancioppi also touches on balancing product management with tech…
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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Christina Lin from Redpanda Data discusses how Redpanda simplifies data streaming as an alternative to Kafka. She and Chris Engelbert explore its ease of use, cloud compatibility, and innovations like the BYOC service as a seamless Kafka alternative. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Christina discuss: Wh…
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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Michael Schmidt, co-founder & CTO of simplyblock, joins us to discuss the innovation behind simplyblock. Michael shares his journey from consulting and leading major retail IT operations to the creation of simplyblock. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Michael discuss: What is software-defined storage? Wh…
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Event-driven processing and real-time stream analytics are common design elements of modern, scalable architectures. Jove Zhon from Timeplus talks about how and why you want to use these architectural patterns and why Timeplus. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Jove discuss: What is Streaming Analytics? Why do people prefer Timeplus? What…
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Writing good integration tests is hard. Databases and other services need to be started up, the test has to be run, and everything needs to be shut down again. In this episode of Cloud Commute Oleg Šelajev from Docker talks about how Testcontainers makes our lives better. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Oleg discuss: Test containers and…
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In this very special episode of Cloud Commute we try something else. Joined by guest Bart Farrell, well known in the Kubernetes ecosystem for his work in the Data on Kubernetes community, as well as Kube.FM. Bart talks about his past, teaching children English after he moved from the USA to Spain, and how this shaped his view on teaching tech topic…
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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, Bruno Borges, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, discusses millions of Java instances at Microsoft and the role of the Microsoft Java team. He introduces Semantic Kernel, a Java library for integrating AI into business applications, using large language models. Tune in to learn how Micros…
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In this episode, our guest Gwen Shapira talks about her co-founded database startup Nile, a serverless Postgres database. She explains how they implemented the multi-tenant features, made sure that customers are probably isolated, how scalability works, and what the future holds. Gwen has years and years of experience using technologies as Oracle d…
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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, host Chris Engelbert talks with Mike Freedman, co-founder and CTO of Timescale. Timescale enhances Postgres for handling time series data, analytics, and AI efficiently. The discussion covers Timescale's use of Kubernetes for scalable, decoupled compute and storage, ensuring high availability …
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In this week's episode we have a very special guest, Michael Schwarz from CISPA. A security researcher specialized in CPU side-channel attacks. He explains how side-channel attacks work in general, but most specifically with the example of his team's most recent find: #CacheWarp. He was also involved in the finding of #Meltdown and #Spectre. In thi…
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In this week's episode of the Cloud Commute podcast by simplyblock, host Chris Engelbert talks to Hannes Ullman from bifrost security, a company building an automatic application firewall. Bifrost is built upon AppArmor, using a training phase to learn the application's network behavior, necessary system calls, and more. Using the data acquired dur…
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In this episode of the Cloud Commute Podcast, Chris Engelbert talks with Dominik Obermaier, CTO and co-founder of HiveMQ. They delve into the technical aspects of MQTT, a lightweight communication protocol designed for the Internet of Things (IoT), and much more. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Dominik discuss: Introduction to HiveMQ an…
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In this week's episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert sits down with Jennifer Reif, a developer advocate at Neo4j. Jennifer dives into the fascinating world of graph databases, explaining how Neo4j stores data as entities and relationships, making it perfect for complex queries involving networks, social structures, su…
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In this week's episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Paloma Oliveira, a Brazilian growth engineer at Sauce Labs and active member of the Python Software Verband and PyLadies Berlin. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Paloma discuss: The role of Sauce Labs in end-to-end testing for software and device…
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In this week's episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert interviews Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DBtune. Luigi provides insights into the complexities of database optimization and the significant role of machine learning in improving system efficiency. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Luigi discuss: Introduc…
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Welcome to this week's episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast! Host Chris Engelbert sits down with Shaun Thomas, affectionately known as "Mr. High Availability" in the Postgres community, to discuss his journey from a standard DBA to a leading expert in high availability solutions for Postgres databases. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Ch…
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In this episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Alessandro Vozza, a prominent figure in the Kubernetes and cloud-native community. Alessandro shares his journey from his early days in open-source advocacy to his pivotal role in organizing the DevOps and Kubernetes meetups in Amsterdam. In this episode of Cloud …
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The podcast episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute features Chris Engelbert interviewing Anders Eknert. They discuss Anders' background and current role at Styra, the company behind the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. Anders lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, and has been involved with Styra for about three and a half years. He shares how his p…
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Using CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy your applications is common sense. Many use combined tools though. Stefan Prodan, from ControlPlane, talks about the importance of recognizing that a deployment pipeline is basically a cluster admin and needs to be handled securely as a production system. If you have questions to Stefan, you can reach her h…
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Running vulnerability scanners during development and in your build pipeline is great, but not enough. Newly emerging CVEs, and other application behavior anomalies need to be caught in production. Oshrat Nir, from ARMO, talks about the importance of runtime vulnerability scanning. If you have questions to Oshrat, you can reach her here: LinkedIn: …
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Gerald Venzl, lead product manager for Oracle databases, talks about the shift of focus away from on-premise databases towards the cloud. It's a big change for a company like Oracle, but a necessary one. Learn more about the challenges and why Oracle believes multi-cloud is the future. If you have questions to Gerald, you can reach him here: Linked…
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Brian Vermeer from Snyk, a cybersecurity company providing tooling to detect common code issues and vulnerabilities throughout your development and deployment pipeline, talks about the necessity of multi checks, the commonly found threads, and how important it is to rebuild images for every deployment, even if the code hasn’t changed. If you have q…
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Jimmy Angelakos, a freelance consultant, talks about his experiences with customers running PostgreSQL on bare-metal, in the cloud, and on Kubernetes. He also talks about his new book "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" (discount link below). If you have questions to Jimmy, you can reach him here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vyrus…
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Gunnar Morling, from Decodable, a company simplifying the use of Apache Flink, talks about how to extract modifications from a database using change data capture tools, such as Debezium, and how to use Apache Flink or Decodable to run your real-time analytics or queries in a stream processing fashion. If you have questions to Gunnar, you can reach …
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Nicolas Fränkel from API7.ai, the major company behind the Apache APISIX API gateway, talks about how APISIX helps you implement rate limiting, customer-specific behavior, and how API gateways in general help secure your APIs. Editor's note: Sorry for the bad audio quality. The recording got messed up. For questions, you can reach Nicolas at: Linke…
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Steven Sklar from QuestDB, a company producing a time series database for large IoT, metrics, observability and other time-component data sets, talks about how they implemented their database offering, from building their own operator to how storage is handled. For questions, you can reach Steven at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-skl…
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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa from OnGres, a company providing the necessary tooling to run a production-grade PostgreSQL in Kubernetes. Álvaro talks about the issues with the many-solutions-to-a-problem situation in Postgres and how it can be overwhelming and alarming to newcomers. For questions, you can reach Álvaro at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.…
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You can't manage what you don't measure, and this includes your cloud costs. But how detailed should this measurement be? And how will the data translate into impact?I sat down with Adam Shugar, co-founder and CTO of Dashdive, to discuss his approach to cloud costs. He shared his advice, not only on cost cutting but also technology, growing a start…
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Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting, a company helping to cost-optimize their AWS EC2 spent by automatically supplying matching workloads with spot instances. For questions, you can reach Cristian at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristimagherusan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/magheru_san You can learn more about AutoSpotting at: …
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In this episode of Cloud Commute, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Abdel Sghiouar, a Kubernetes expert from Google, to discuss various aspects of cloud technology, with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions. Abdel, who has been with Google for a decade and specializes in Kubernetes networking, security, and storage, shares insights into the…
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In this episode, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems, a company specializing in confidential computing technologies. Moritz shares his background in computer security and his journey into co-founding Edgeless Systems. He dives deep into the concept of confidential computing, explaining its hardware-based approach to en…
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In this episode of our podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Franck Pachot from Yugabyte, a distributed SQL database company. Franck, a developer advocate with extensive experience in databases, discusses the advantages of distributed SQL databases over traditional single-node SQL databases. He explains that Yugabyte offers the robust features of …
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In this episode, host Chris Engelbert sits down with Rich Kenny, Managing Director of Interact and a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University. Rich shares his extensive experience in machine learning-based environmental consultancy and his work on the circular economy. Rich dives into Interact's innovative product that optimizes the perfor…
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Bill Tarr has the most interesting job in the world. He and his team of SaaS Evangelists at the AWS SaaS Factory work with companies large and small to help them build SaaS on AWS. In this conversation, we discuss the different ways technology and business interact when building SaaS - from cool technical options available only to SaaS companies to…
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Ryan Worl, co-founder and CTO of WarpStream, is on a mission to re-engineer fundamental infrastructure on top of S3. Starting with metrics at Uber, continuing with Husky - DataDog's platform for events, logs and everything except metrics and then... Ryan thought "it will be cool to re-build Kafka on S3", reached out to other developers to hear thei…
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We invited Anna Povzner, director of engineering at Confluent, to the show to discuss Kora. Kora is a Cloud Native platform based on Apache Kafka, which her team at Confluent built. Anna and her team recently published a paper about Kora in VLDB 2023, and it won the industry's best paper award.Kora VLDB paper: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822…
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In the last year or two I started hearing a lot about cell-based architectures. Usually in the form of “We had a lot of issues scaling our infrastructure, but then we moved to cell-based architectures” and “I wish I’ve learned about cell based architectures earlier, it would have saved me a lot of pain”. As a result, I’ve wanted to share knowledge …
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Krishna Raman has many years of experience building platforms for developers. Now he's applying this experience at Delta Streams to build a serverless platform for stream processing in SQL. In our conversation, we discussed the serverless developer experience, some of the secret sauce behind Delta Stream's Flink Operator, how to deliver a bring-you…
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You are a founding engineer at a SaaS startup. You built the MVP, and to everyone's great delight - usage is picking up. What's next? In this episode, Jeffrey shares how a messy MVP can gradually evolve into a scalable SaaS product. We discuss the critical design decisions engineers have to make in the early days of building the product: Tabs or sp…
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Did you know that Postgres that lets you write data that you can’t query? Events that will show up in the write-ahead log (WAL) of the database but not in any table. Gunnar Morling, senior staff engineer at Decodable and world expert on change data capture, walks us through data capture basics, this not-new but little-known feature, and dives into …
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Andrew Atkinson took a Rails web application that was struggling with load, and optimized it to handle over 9000 HTTP requests per second with an average latency of 35ms end to end. Handling a much higher load, on a smaller RDS instance, with lower latencies. He then shared his expertise by writing a book: "High-Performance Postgres with Rails."And…
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Ensuring your production system is well-behaved is table stakes for any SaaS. The space around monitoring and alerting is complex and moving fast, so it is too easy to end up with results that are worse than useless. Alert fatigue is real, and developers must learn to avoid this. Shahar and Tal, founders of Keep and active SaaS Developer community …
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Cloudflare is no longer "just" a CDN serving 55M HTTP requests/sec; they now offer a wide range of cloud services on the edge. These services run on a data layer with 15 Postgres clusters running hundreds of databases. Vignesh Ravichandran, engineering manager of Cloudflare's database team, joined us to discuss the challenges of running this large-…
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Pinot team at Uber wrote an excellent paper about the real-time analytics platform they built. Chinmay, formerly a principal engineer at Uber and now head of product at StarTree, joined me for a conversation.We discussed the challenges they encountered at Uber, the solutions they came up with, the platform they built, and how to best apply their ex…
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Shayon wrote a great blog post on the guiding principles he and his team at Loom used to guide them as they evolved Loom's data platform through a period of hypergrowth. I invited Shayon to the show to discuss the challenges he encountered and how he solved them - and I learned that he is now at Tines - solving an entirely new set of challenges wit…
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Colt McNealy is re-imagining the future of microservices orchestration and he decided to build it entirely on Kafka Streams. In this conversation we discuss how Kafka Streams provides the low latency, reliability, availability and elasticity that is needed for the next generation of microservices orchestration. Colt also shares the most exciting up…
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If you used a relational database at all, you probably heard of transaction isolation levels. Transaction isolation levels have a massive impact on the behavior of your application - correctness, performance, and error rates. Your database may be distributed these days, so you may have to reason about distributed transactions too.In this video, I e…
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YouTube and Twitter are full of “things developers should never do”. There's an endless demand for simple advice that applies in all situations.And that's not a bad thing. If there's a simple solution that works 80% of the time, this is valuable information. More practical than just "it depends." But advice-givers and advice-getters can do better. …
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When developers talk about Serverless, they often focus on FaaS. But the best Serverless experience, by far, is delivered by a data store. S3. Why? Because it "just works" and lets developers focus on their code. Serverless databases help you focus on your queries and workload. They abstract the compute. Which also means - usage based pricing. In t…
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