Fail Fast & Ship It with Jeremy Custenborder Ep. 18

Streaming Audio: A Confluent podcast about Apache Kafka® by Confluent

Feb 9, 202627:00Technology

Viktor Gamov talks to Jeremy Custenborder (Confluent) about his career in large-scale systems. Jeremy’s first job: paper boy. His challenge: keeping MySpace running at a massive pre-cloud scale while building the tools t...

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