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Life Is But A Stream

Confluent

There’s a new divide in the data revolution—there are the organizations harnessing real-time data streaming for immediate impact, and there are those left in the dust.

Life Is But A Stream is a web show for technology leaders who need to act the instant data is created. Every episode, technical leaders and industry pioneers share how they’re utilizing data streaming to enrich, analyze, and put real-time data to work across use cases that were once unimaginable. Host Joseph Morais and senior tech leaders break down winning strategies with real-world examples, teaching you how to accelerate decision-making, achieve measurable business impact, and turn your data into your biggest competitive advantage.

Ready to lead the data streaming revolution? Join us on Life Is But A Stream.

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S2 · E14
July 21 · 40 min
Ep 26 - Making Great Bets: How Extend Built a Serverless, Event-Driven Foundation with Confluent
What does it take to run a commerce platform that's 100% serverless and fully event-driven? Jonathan Kropp, Director of AI & Architecture at Extend, shares how making early bets on Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud gave his team a durable, replayable central nervous system—and the freedom to focus engineering time on business value instead of infrastructure.
S2 · E13
July 7 · 38 min
Ep 25 - Thousands of Migrations, Zero Data Loss: OCBC's Confluent Playbook
George Goh, Executive Director at OCBC, explains how Singapore's second-largest bank migrated thousands of microservices and monolithic applications across multi-region in just six hours with zero data loss. Learn how OCBC built a resilient, future-ready architecture that balances strict regulatory requirements with high-performance developer experience with Confluent’s data streaming platform.
S2 · E12
June 24 · 32 min
Ep 24 - Boring by Design: Character.AI runs 5GBps on WarpSteam and saves 90%
Maor Bril, Chaos Catalyst & Technical Staff Member at Character.AI, shares how a lean team built real-time safety and experimentation pipelines on WarpStream by Confluent—cutting infrastructure costs by 85 to 90% while running 5GB/s through Kafka-compliant, BYOC infrastructure.
S2 · E11
May 12 · 49 min
Ep 23 - Context Is Everything: How Wix's AI Agents Stay Ahead of the Rest
Wix's Josef Goldstein on building a multi-lane streaming architecture that powers 40B daily events and AI agents at scale.
S2 · E10
April 28 · 33 min
Ep 22 - Building the Agentic Enterprise: How AWS and Confluent Power Real-Time AI
Varun Jasti of AWS explains why real-time data—not better models—is the true unlock for enterprise AI.
S2 · E9
April 14 · 34 min
Ep 21 - How Focal Systems Closed the Inventory Gap with Data Streaming
Grocery retail has an inventory accuracy problem—and Focal Systems is fixing it with computer vision and real-time data streaming.
S2 · E8
March 31 · 48 min
Ep 20 - One Solution, Infinite Value: How SecurityScorecard Put Confluent at the Center of Everything
SecurityScorecard's engineering team shares how going schema-first with Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud cut processing time from a weekend to near real-time.
S2 · E7
March 17 · 54 min
Ep 19 - How CARIAD Powers Software-Defined Vehicles with Real-Time Data Streaming
How CARIAD built a multi-region Kafka platform unifying data from 45M vehicles across 90 markets.
S2 · E6
February 10 · 48 min
Ep 18 - Building a Central Nervous System: Why Busie Put Real-Time Data at Its Core
Can a lean engineering team of three modernize the charter bus industry? Brady Perry, Co-founder and CTO of Busie, shares how they are replacing fax machines and paper checks with a modern operating system for group mobility. Discover how real-time data streaming became the backbone of their platform—and how an event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka® enabled a small team to decouple services, stay resilient, and ship value faster with Confluent Cloud.
S2 · E5
January 27 · 1 hr 10 min
Ep 17 - 2026 Predictions: What's Next for Data Streaming and AI
AI is reshaping everything from who your customers are to how data is governed, secured, stored, and leveraged—powering a new generation of intelligent data strategies. Tune in as industry thought leaders unpack the biggest trends shaping agentic AI, data streaming, and modern data architectures in 2026.
S2 · E4
January 13 · 46 min
Ep 16 - Infinite Scale, No Outages: How MarketAxess Modernized Trading Infrastructure With Confluent
MarketAxess, a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income markets, modernized its trade infrastructure by moving from legacy, socket-based systems to a real-time data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud. Andy Steinmann, Software Engineering Manager at MarketAxess, shares how this shift unlocked hybrid architecture, infinite scale, and zero Kafka cluster outages while keeping mission-critical financial data flowing.
Dec 16, 2025 · 18 min
Best of 2025: Everything You Missed in 15 Minutes
Our host, Joseph Morais revisits the most impactful moments across data streaming, event-driven architecture, and AI, showing how real-time data became the backbone of modern data systems and decision making in this year-end highlight.
S2 · E3
Dec 2, 2025 · 33 min
Ep 15 - Inside Saudi Arabia's Real-Time AI Evolution
Mohamed Ahmed Anwar of (ssc by stc) Saudi Cloud Computing Company shares how they are embedding Confluent through the OEM program to power secure, scalable AI with real-time data streaming across Saudi Arabia’s digital economy.
Nov 20, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
LIVE from Current NOLA: Scaling Streaming in the AI Era
Recorded from the expo hall at Current New Orleans, Joseph Morais and Adi Polak break down keynote insights, trends in Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and agentic AI, plus voices from the community shaping the future of real-time data streaming.
S2 · E2
Oct 21, 2025 · 45 min
Ep 14 - Modern Monetization: How Metronome Powers Real-Time Billing with Confluent
Metronome’s CTO, Cosmo Wolfe shares how his team built a real-time monetization platform that delivers second-level latency for billing and revenue insights. Discover how Metronome leverages Confluent’s data streaming platform to process billions of events per day, enabling instant billing, fraud detection, and agile pricing at scale.
S2 · E1
Oct 7, 2025 · 37 min
Ep 13 - The Future of Coding: How Cursor and WarpStream Power AI Productivity
Cursor is redefining what coding looks like when AI and humans work side by side. In this episode, Alex Haugland explains how WarpStream and data streaming keep Cursor fast, private, and scalable while powering better AI productivity.
Sep 16, 2025 · 48 min
Shaping the Future of AI: A2A + Data Streaming
When AI agents truly connect, businesses move beyond isolated AI experiments to unlock scale and innovation. In this episode, Confluent's Sean Falconer dives into the Agent2Agent protocol (A2A), why agents need both fresh data and a powerful infrastructure, and how a data streaming platform turns isolated agents into a connected, business-driving force.
S1 · E12
Jul 22, 2025 · 56 min
Ep 12 - Shift Left, Stream Fast: The Real-Time Data Strategy Fueling Swedbank’s Future
When data moves faster, risk goes down, and impact goes up. Rami Al Lolah, Lead Architect at Swedbank, explains how real-time data streaming and the shift left approach are transforming how the bank delivers data-driven services with speed, safety, and scale.
S1 · E11
Jun 26, 2025 · 33 min
Ep 11 - Streaming Data at Scale with Strategic Cloud Partners
Confluent’s Elena Cuevas breaks down the art of cloud partnerships in the world of data streaming. From AWS to Azure, she reveals how collaboration—not competition—drives customer value at scale.
S1 · E10
Jun 10, 2025 · 39 min
Ep 10 - Allium’s Blueprint for Scaling Blockchain Data with Data Streaming
Allium’s CEO, Ethan Chan, reveals how Confluent’s data streaming platform helps them deliver clean, real-time blockchain data across nearly 100 chains, and why building your own infrastructure just doesn’t scale.

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