Sean Falconer
seanfalconer.bsky.social
Sean Falconer
@seanfalconer.bsky.social
AI @ Confluent | ex-Google | Engineer & Storyteller | Snowflake Data Superhero | AWS Community Builder
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The future of the agentic enterprise runs on real-time data.
Join Salesforce & Confluent live at #Current25 as Gunther Hagleitner and @seanfalconer.bsky.social share how real-time context powers the next generation of agentic AI systems. Stream it free on 10/29→ https://cnfl.io/43zOrWP
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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AI that thinks fast needs data that moves fast.
At #Current25 NOLA, @anthropic.com Rachel Lo will join @seanfalconer.bsky.social on the mainstage to show how Claude + data streaming are changing what’s possible for intelligent systems. Don’t miss it -> https://cnfl.io/3WH6mag
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social dive into the Deel and Rippling saga, Postgres bets by Databricks and Snowflake, this weird time for devs, and highlights from Hacker News.

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/06/17/s...
SED News: Corporate Spies, Postgres, and the Weird Life of Devs Right Now - Software Engineering Daily
Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and wider te...
softwareengineeringdaily.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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João Moura is the founder of CrewAI which is a platform for building and deploying automated workflows. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the company’s rise in the agentic AI space and the future of automation.

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/06/03/c...
Crew AI with João Moura - Software Engineering Daily
Agentic AI is seen as a key frontier in artificial intelligence, enabling systems to autonomously act, adapt in real-time, and solve complex, multi-step problems based on objectives and context. Unlik...
softwareengineeringdaily.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Watch the full episode to see how Edward Vaisman and @seanfalconer.bsky.social used Goose to explore Kafka data without writing a single line of code.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlz...
Real-Time Data You Can Prompt Using MCP
YouTube video by Block Open Source
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May 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Jack Dongarra is a Turing Award winner who is celebrated for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and high-performance computing. He joins the podcast with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about his life and career.

@acm.org

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/03/18/t...
Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jack Dongarra - Software Engineering Daily
Jack Dongarra is an American computer scientist who is celebrated for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and high-performance computing. He developed essential software libraries lik...
softwareengineeringdaily.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Chris Deotte is a Senior Data Scientist and
@jfpuget.bsky.social is the Director and a Distinguished Engineer at Nvidia. They join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about NVIDIA RAPIDS and GPU-acceleration for data science tools.

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/03/04/n...
NVIDIA RAPIDS and Open Source ML Acceleration with Chris Deotte and Jean-Francois Puget - Software Engineering Daily
NVIDIA RAPIDS is an open-source suite of GPU-accelerated data science and AI libraries. It leverages CUDA and significantly enhances the performance of core Python frameworks including Polars, pandas,...
softwareengineeringdaily.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Multi-agent systems promise to solve complex problems, but only with the right foundation.

Event-driven design gives multi-agent systems a shared language, using events to decouple producers and consumers.

www.infoworld.com/article/3808...
January 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Distributed systems are complex, but what if most are just logs at their core?

"Every System is a Log" explores how embracing this idea reduces coordination and simplifies design.

Worth a read: restate.dev/blog/every-s...
Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications
Distributed coordination makes application complex and brittle. Because all systems eventually build on logs, we can use a shared-log approach to eliminate most coordination. We discuss this conceptua...
restate.dev
January 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI agents are powerful, but they’re not always the answer. Sometimes a prompt or workflow is simpler, faster, and smarter.

Prompts: great for one-offs.
Workflows: solid for predictable tasks.
Agents: messy, adaptable, but tricky to scale.

Don’t over-engineer. More here: medium.com/@seanfalcone...
A Practical Guide to Choosing Prompts, Workflows, or Agents
Note: I recently contributed with my colleague Jack Vanlightly on an article exploring when it makes sense to use an AI agent. The topic…
medium.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The pace of AI advancement is not slowing down, and now AI agents are breaking onto the scene, leveraging ever more powerful models to interact with the real world. In this post, I cover some of the voices talking about AI agents and the challenges ahead.

jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/1/...
AI Agents in 2025 — Jack Vanlightly
Two interesting blog posts about AI agents have caught my attention over the last few weeks. Anthropic wrote Building Effective Agents. Chip Huyen wrote Agents . Ethan Mollick has also...
jack-vanlightly.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
AI can't deliver value if your data is siloed, stale, and stuck in brittle pipelines.

Real-time streaming solves this by liberating data at the source. No batch delays. No reverse ETL headaches.

Check out my article for more on this.

medium.com/@seanfalcone...
January 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
AI is only as good as its data. I built a research assistant with Kafka + Flink to process real-time, in-flight data—no stale datasets, no rigid pipelines. Just clean architecture powering practical AI.

dzone.com/articles/bui...
Building a Research Assistant With Kafka and Flink
Learn about the development of an AI-powered research assistant created to help prepare for podcast interviews.
dzone.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I don't always have time to craft a great post about a podcast I host. To make life easier, I built an AI-powered LinkedIn post generator.

Blog post: seanfalconer.medium.com/automating-p...

GitHub repo: github.com/thefalc/podc...
January 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🎙️ This year, I hosted nearly 100 podcasts!

Here are some of my favorites👇

The Real Work of Data Engineering with @joereis.bsky.social: youtu.be/KwP4q00B6OI

One Year of ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki: youtu.be/cJP5341-GGw
The Real Work of Data Engineering with Joe Reis
YouTube video by Software Huddle
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December 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
While databases are introverts, holding information close until explicitly asked, LLMs are extroverts, designed to engage, synthesize and proactively contribute.

For more on this, check out my post on @thenewstack.io:

thenewstack.io/stop-treatin...
Stop Treating Your LLM Like a Database
A look at why the batch paradigm is a relic of the past, how it hinders AI apps and why the future of AI demands a real-time event-streaming platform.
thenewstack.io
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM