How Kafka Expert Robin Moffat Tackles Open Source Problems | Ep. 6

Today, Viktor Gamov talks to his colleague Robin Moffat (Confluent) about his career in data engineering. His first job: paperboy. His challenge: working at a retailer with Oracle materialized views as well as teaching others how to productively approach Kafka’s internal systems.Blog posts mentioned in the podcast:► Oracle Materialized Views troubleshooting: https://rnm1978.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/materialised-views-pct-partition-truncation/► Kafka Listeners explained: https://rmoff.net/2018/08/02/kafka-listeners-explained/► Kafka Connect converters: https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-connect-deep-dive-converters-serialization-explained/Follow Robin:► Blog: https://rmoff.net/► X: https://twitter.com/rmoff/► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rmoff.netSEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo  🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.