Life Is But A Stream

About Life Is But A Stream

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. Powered by the data streaming experts at Confluent.

Publisher

Confluent

Category

business · education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jan 2025

Latest episode

21 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

28 of 30 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 26 - Making Great Bets: How Extend Built a Serverless, Event-Driven Foundation with Confluent

   Jonathan Kropp, Director of AI & Architecture at Extend, explains how early bets on Kafka and Confluent Cloud built a serverless, event-driven foundation for their commerce platform.

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   7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 25 - Thousands of Migrations, Zero Data Loss: OCBC's Confluent Playbook

   George Goh, Executive Director at OCBC, shares how the bank achieved zero data loss during a massive six-hour migration, building a resilient, future-ready architecture.

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   24 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 24 - Boring by Design: Character.AI runs 5GBps on WarpSteam and saves 90%

   Maor Bril, Chaos Catalyst & Technical Staff Member at Character.AI, explains how a lean team built real-time safety and experimentation pipelines on WarpStream, saving 90% on infrastructure costs.

Inside a recent episode

Ep 26 - Making Great Bets: How Extend Built a Serverless, Event-Driven Foundation with Confluent

Published 21 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] How do we actually implement those stories? How do we deploy things? How do we test it? How do we monitor it? Each phase of that SDLC process, there are things that you can utilize AI for to help, again, remove all that dead space in between those interactions. That's one area that we're focusing on. Also, just think about all those mundane, boring tasks that you do. There's a lot of hype around coding and all these hot topic of where you can apply AI. There's so many other places where you can just apply it to the boring side of your business and get efficiency gains out of. […]

Who has been a guest on Life Is But A Stream

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jonathan Kropp
• George Goh
• Maor Bril
• Andy Steinmann
• Mohamed Ahmed Anwar

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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