This is the twelfth edition of this newsletter in its current form. It’s great to see the audience for it growing, and consistently positive reception when I share it. Nice words always inspire me to carry on with it :D The substack edition (which is exactly the same content but sent out by email), is also picking up views and subscribers.

Well it’s that time of year already! Whilst munching on a mince pie, enjoy the final Interesting Links for 2025.

It’s been a busy twelve months for me; this time last year I was signing off from my last company, which went on to be acquired—and last week I found out that my current company (Confluent) is to be acquired by IBM. Despite my reaction against any kind of cheese moving, I figure this is going to be an interesting development and a whole new experience for me :)

Welcome to the 10th edition of Interesting Links. I’ve got over a hundred links for you this month—all of them, IMHO, interesting :)

What with Current NOLA 2025 happening this week, and some very last minute preparations for the demo at the keynote on day 2, this month’s links roundup is pushing it right up to the wire :) The demo was pretty cool, and finally I have a good example of how this AI stuff actually fits into a workflow ;) I’ll write it up as a blog post (or two, probably)—stay tuned!

Sneaking it in just before the end of the month!

It’s a bumper set of links this month—I started with an original backlog of 125 links to get through. Some fell by the wayside, but plenty of others (78, to be precise) made the cut. With no further ado, let’s get cracking!

You can find previous editions of Interesting Links here.

First up, allow me a shameless plug for my blog posts this month:

The problem with publishing February’s interesting links at the beginning of the month and now getting around to publishing March’s at the end is that I have nearly two months' worth of links to share 😅 So with no further ado, let’s crack on.

Here’s a bunch of interesting links and articles about data that I’ve come across recently.