💡 Sean Falconer joins Peter Stojanovic from HotTopics.ht to discuss why AI initiatives often fail and how the data-as-a-product approach is key to scalable GenAI and Agentic AI applications. Watch their chat below! ⤵️ cnfl.io/4kNQdds

📢✨🎙️We’re looking for a podcast guest with hands-on experience building production RAG systems. If you can speak to real-world challenges, strategies, and practical tips for RAG system engineering, we’d love to hear from you! Reach us at [email protected].

We're back! More SED news with Gregor Vand!

We have the awesome Sam Lambert [@isamlambert] from PlanetScale back for a third time. Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert 🎉 Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for

Building CI for the Age of AI Agents with Aayush Shah 🎉 Today's episode is with Aayush Shah. Aayush is one of the co-founders of Blacksmith, which is a CI compute platform. Basically, Blacksmith will run your GitHub Actions jobs faster and with more visibility with the

Building a High-Ownership Engineering Culture with Matt Watson If you’ve ever felt like engineering teams are stuck in execution mode—heads down, building what they’re told—then today’s episode is for you. We're talking about what it really takes to build high ownership

In this episode Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer discuss Meta’s AI gambit, the Windsurf shake up, the UK VPN surge and highlights from Hacker News. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/07/sed…

If you’re optimizing pipelines, designing data platforms, or training AI models, you don't want to miss this! Learn how to unify your operational + analytical data, get even more value out of Snowflake, simplify your AI + analytics workflows, and more: cnfl.io/3J4K4eU

In his new article in @TheNewStack, Sean Falconer explores how the flexible intuition of AI, the verifiable structure of knowledge graphs, & real-time awareness from data streaming could lead to a web that machines can understand & act on. Read it here: thenewstack.io/ai-agents-are-…

Shinji Kim is the founder and CEO of Select Star. She joins Sean Falconer to discuss solving metadata curation challenges, managing data context at scale, using LLMs for SQL generation, emerging trends in metadata management, and more. Shinji Kim softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/04/con…

Big news from #FlinkForward Barcelona: #FlinkAgents 0.1.0 is live! Major step for #ApacheFlink and #AI, making agents truly event-driven, scalable, production-ready. Built with #Alibaba, #Ververica, #LinkedIn & #Confluent. The future of #StreamingAI is real-time and stateful.

AI that thinks fast needs data that moves fast. At #Current25 NOLA, Anthropic's Rachel Lo will join @SeanFalconer on the mainstage to show how Claude + data streaming are changing what’s possible for intelligent systems. Don’t miss it -> cnfl.io/3WH6mag

Exponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own

The future of the agentic enterprise runs on real-time data. Join @Salesforce & Confluent live at #Current25 as Gunther Hagleitner and @SeanFalconer share how real-time context powers the next generation of agentic AI systems. Stream it free on 10/29→ cnfl.io/43zOrWP

Even a data monster can’t stop the show from going on. See y'all tomorrow at Current NOLA. #current25

In this episode Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer cover the $1.7B Security AI acquisition, LangChain’s valuation, Periodic Labs’s $300M funding, the Amazon Web Services outage, the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/04/sed…

New blog post! "How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?" Many teams today are trying to unify their streaming and batch pipelines over Apache Iceberg. But physical unification comes with trade-offs: 🔹 Flink streaming mode and other stream processors want

The Stack Overflow team recently released the results of their legendary annual developer survey. Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis worked on this year’s survey and they join Sean Falconer to talk about the results. Stack Overflow softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/13/the…

Learn how the built-in anomaly detection ML function in Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® enables event-driven AI agents to detect and act on outlier system events faster. Check out our latest blog -> cnfl.io/4o28Nzv

Generative AI can’t reach its full potential with stale data. Join Confluent and @GoogleCloud to learn how to build real-time, event-driven AI systems that think and act instantly. Discover A2A, MCP, and how to turn data in motion into intelligent action live in our upcoming