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Every slide deck and blog post everywhere this month, brought to you by Claude

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:37:39 +0000

27 Oct 2026

Every slide deck and blog post everywhere this month, brought to you by Claude

On Bluesky

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:27:07 +0000

26 Oct 2026

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

The DuckDB team · duckdb.org

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” released. Includes “agent mode”, DuckDB as a server (quack protocol), triggers, and more

LF git repositories

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:05:18 +0000

26 Oct 2026

LF git repositories

lore.kernel.org

Linus Torvalds with some wise words, in his own inimitable style :D

I don’t understand this whole idiotic concept of “don’t use AI for X”.

Here’s a new rule just for you: don’t use compilers for any of your kernel submissions.

Because if you can’t show that you really understand what the machine is actually doing by writing your code in assembler, then I don’t want to see your code contribution. You clearly aren’t competent if you can’t write it that way.

Practitioner Voice

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:27:06 +0000

21 Oct 2026

Practitioner Voice

Jim Highsmith · martinfowler.com

Academic writing hides behind rigor. Thought leadership hides behind polish. Now a third option has arrived — LLM Voice — that doesn’t require hiding at all, because there’s no one there.

Practitioner authority comes from having been in the situation, not as a researcher studying it, but as a person responsible for the outcome.

Pluralistic: Itch scratching

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:27:04 +0000

20 Oct 2026

Pluralistic: Itch scratching

Cory Doctorow · pluralistic.net

I think that so much of the outrage about slop code – floods of garbagey pull requests and bug reports – is the result of the collapse of this dynamic. Slop’s not merely annoying or time-wasting: it’s a betrayal of the love and care that goes into writing and maintaining code for others.

The Five Camps of Data Modeling (and Which One You’re Stuck In)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:27:04 +0000

19 Oct 2026

The Five Camps of Data Modeling (and Which One You’re Stuck In)

Joe Reis · practicaldatamodeling.substack.com

Practitioners rarely look beyond their niche. Data engineers who’ve never designed a normalized table. App devs who’ve never heard of slowly changing dimensions. ML engineers who’ve never modeled a core business domain. Ontologists who’ve never shipped a production pipeline.

From Data Contracts to Quality Checks

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:27:04 +0000

16 Oct 2026

From Data Contracts to Quality Checks

Chris Gambill · gambilldataengineering.substack.com

A data contract only earns its keep when its computable requirements become enforceable checks.

Scattering assertions throughout notebooks does not solve that problem. Neither does documenting requirements in a wiki that has no connection to runtime behavior.

Agents: The new, New Kingmakers

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:27:04 +0000

13 Oct 2026

Agents: The new, New Kingmakers

Stephen O'Grady · redmonk.com

Successful Developer Relations campaigns were about persuading and negotiating with large developer populations. Agent relations, however, will require influencing a small number of models, one that can likely be counted on two hands.

Confluent Developer Blog

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:43:50 +0000

17 Jul 2026

Confluent Developer Blog

developer.confluent.io

Hey, we launched a new blog :) It’s even got an RSS feed!

100% technical content, covering Kafka, Flink, and much more.

What LLMs are Doing to Conference Programs, and How to Use Them Effectively if You're Going to Do It Anyway

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:27:16 +0000

08 Jul 2026

What LLMs are Doing to Conference Programs, and How to Use Them Effectively if You're Going to Do It Anyway

Dian Fay · di.nmfay.com

“The LLM grinds everything into the same inherently untrustable confidently-expressed blandness”

How Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:27:04 +0000

18 Jun 2026

How Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude

Josh Cherry · claude.com

Guess what? Even the cool kids know that sometimes you don’t reinvent the wheel, you just model your data properly :)

> the definition of active user depends on which dimensions you anchor to.

GitHub - confluentinc/mcp-confluent

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:52:16 +0000

14 May 2026

GitHub - confluentinc/mcp-confluent

github.com

seeing how far I can get Claude to build a Kafka pipeline by prompting alone, without touching the Confluent Cloud UI or CLI myself. So far, pretty darn good. Claude making heavy use of

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a suit and tie .

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:30:10 +0000

29 Apr 2026

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a suit and tie .

media.tenor.com

jfc it’s now a joy to simply read any blog post that’s not AI-generated.

if you actually have a good thing to write about, for the love of your readers and the good of the internet, please just write about it. claude might shit out a completed article but it’ll stink.

(1/4)

Medallion Architecture Isn't As New As You Think

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:27:05 +0000

03 Apr 2026

Medallion Architecture Isn't As New As You Think

Chris Gambill · gambilldataengineering.substack.com

Chris Gambill nails it in this discussion of why holding data at multiple levels of refinement makes a ton of sense, and is not just “duplication”

How I built a new composite qualitative metric - The Lovable Score

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:02:44 +0000

25 Mar 2026

How I built a new composite qualitative metric - The Lovable Score

Elena Verna · elenaverna.com

🪝 I love a good hook at the beginning of a blog post, and Elena Verna nails this one

I'm Not Gonna Waste Time Debunking Crap on LinkedIn.

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:04:32 +0000

24 Mar 2026

I'm Not Gonna Waste Time Debunking Crap on LinkedIn.

Brent Ozar · brentozar.com

This rant from @Brent Ozar is my kind of rant. Love it. Is it ironic posting it on LI? Don’t care. People should read it.

AI will fuck you up if you’re not on board

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:47:38 +0000

09 Mar 2026

AI will fuck you up if you’re not on board

lobste.rs

last week I made r/dataengineering cross, this week it’s the AI-sceptics on lobst.rs :D

Embrace the uncertainty

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:01:08 +0000

05 Mar 2026

Embrace the uncertainty

brittanyellich.com

Brittany Ellich absolutely nails it in this excellent article: “But here’s the thing: no one actually knows what the future is going to be.”

Jack of all trades: query federation in modern OLAP databases

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:27:05 +0000

05 Mar 2026

Jack of all trades: query federation in modern OLAP databases

Nicoleta Lazar · medium.com

Excellent blog post from Nicoleta Lazar comparing query federation between Trino and StarRocks with sources including Iceberg

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:46:21 +0000

27 Feb 2026

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X

twitter.com

Think I just realised why some software devs are still so voraciously stubborn in their anti-AI stance.

engineering.linkedin.com

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:27:05 +0000

11 Feb 2026

engineering.linkedin.com

How was December 2013 both only yesterday and over twelve years ago?!

Either way, some articles’ core messages hold true over time—and this is one of those articles.

Cynthia Dunlop (@c_a_dunlop) on X

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:27:30 +0000

11 Feb 2026

Cynthia Dunlop (@c_a_dunlop) on X

twitter.com

Rather chuffed to get featured on @c_a_dunlop’s blog (alongside many names who I’ve fanboi’d for years, giving me serious imposter syndrome 🙃)

Can You Teach Claude to be ‘Good’?

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:27:05 +0000

29 Jan 2026

Can You Teach Claude to be ‘Good’?

youtu.be

I enjoyed this Hard Fork interview; very accessible for a layperson like me :)

> Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher in charge of shaping Claude’s personality, discusses the company’s newly released “Claude Constitution”

List of Kafka TUIs

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:52:16 +0000

20 Jan 2026

List of Kafka TUIs

old.reddit.com

I put together a quick list of TUIs for ApacheKafka. Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using?

Streaming Microservices: Contracts & Compatibility

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:15:33 +0000

15 Jan 2026

Streaming Microservices: Contracts & Compatibility

Gwen Shapira · infoq.com

What one conference talk do you keep coming back to, again and again, over the years?

I’ll start: @Gwen (Chen) Shapira’s “Streaming Microservices: Contracts & Compatibility” talk from QCon 2017:

(Related to this, a tweet from Gwen a year later but it still makes me chuckle: “Don’t make me go out there and unfuck your data pipelines for you.” https://x.com/gwenshap/status/967118574014799872)

Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:17:18 +0000

09 Jan 2026

Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Karthik Ramgopal · infoq.com

OK, this is exactly what I was looking for: “Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant”.

Anyone got more good examples like this? https://twitter.com/rmoff/status/1999426776037044420

twitter.com

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:02:11 +0000

17 Dec 2025

twitter.com

Doesn’t everyone have a favourite RSS reader?! This one is definitely mine 👇

Build Your Own Database

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:27:13 +0000

14 Nov 2025

Build Your Own Database

Nanda Syahrasyad · nan.fyi

A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch: - love the explainer/interactive animation in this

ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me!

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:01:03 +0000

12 Nov 2025

One for my DBA friends! A very good talk from @andypavlo.bsky.social, looking at how LLMs can actually be used to help improve performance. It’s measured and reasonable, with plenty of caveats and real-world considerations from someone who really gets RDBMS.

Announcing Apache Fluss (Incubating) 0.8: Streaming Lakehouse for Data + AI

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:20:13 +0000

11 Nov 2025

Announcing Apache Fluss (Incubating) 0.8: Streaming Lakehouse for Data + AI

Giannis Polyzos · fluss.apache.org

I missed this release last week - ApacheFluss now supports writing to both ApacheIceberg and Lance (as well as the original ApachePaimon.

P99 Conference

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:15:38 +0000

10 Nov 2025

P99 Conference

p99conf.io

P99 CONF nails it in terms of both content, and UX for attending. Super-simple registration. Free registration. Videos available on-demand afterwards with no gating or games. Clear and usable website. These folk know how to do a developer conference. A+++

🎥 Videos & slides

The Silent Crowd

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:46:02 +0000

06 Nov 2025

The Silent Crowd

Sam Harris · samharris.substack.com

Good post from Sam Harris about public speaking, including some good lessons for conference speakers specifically

How Kafka Expert Robin Moffat Tackles Open Source Problems

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:05:25 +0000

03 Nov 2025

How Kafka Expert Robin Moffat Tackles Open Source Problems

confluent.buzzsprout.com

Check it out - I was on a podcast :) @gamussa.dev was kind enough to spend some time chatting with me about my time working with Oracle, Kafka, and more.

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0t5cCl9BWM

Why I’m not a fan of zero-copy Apache Kafka-Apache Iceberg

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:13:05 +0000

24 Oct 2025

Why I’m not a fan of zero-copy Apache Kafka-Apache Iceberg

Jack Vanlightly · jack-vanlightly.com

One of the things I love about @vanlightly.bsky.social’s posts is that he is both opinionated and highly informed and articulate in his argument. This post is a great example: Why I’m not a fan of zero-copy Apache Kafka-Apache Iceberg

Flink Watermarks…WTF?

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:44:53 +0000

20 Oct 2025

Flink Watermarks…WTF?

flink-watermarks.wtf

Have you ever found yourself thinking…Flink Watermarks…WTF? 🔥 This new tool might be for you :)

It’s a hands-on, scrollytelling walkthrough of what watermarks in ApacheFlink are, why they matter, and how to use them.

Try it out

Build beautiful presentations with asciidoctor and reveal.js

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:11:51 +0000

10 Oct 2025

Build beautiful presentations with asciidoctor and reveal.js

Marti Sec · 8vi.cat

Trying out RevealJS with Asciidoc and liking it a lot so far. Some good resources/examples I’ve used:

https://zenika.github.io/adoc-presentation-model/reveal-my-asciidoc.html#source-18

https://github.com/martsec/asciidoc-slides?tab=readme-ov-file

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=flobilosaurus.vscode-asciidoc-slides

Reflections on 2 Years Running Developer Relations

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:52:00 +0000

06 Oct 2025

Reflections on 2 Years Running Developer Relations

databased.pedramnavid.com

Good article from @pedramnavid.com about building a successful DevRel team.

Measured and considered, and lots of wisdom. A++++ would read again.

The Data Backbone of LLM Systems

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:39:42 +0000

11 Sep 2025

The Data Backbone of LLM Systems

Paul Iusztin · infoq.com

I really enjoyed this talk from Paul Iusztin at QCon London. Covers lots of concepts around like LLMs, RAG, and Agents and explains them well.

New Orleans

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:30:01 +0000

09 Sep 2025

New Orleans

current.confluent.io

🌟 Going to Current25 next month? Here are some of the top DataEngineering talks that I’d recommend 👇

🔥 Not already registered? 🎟️ You can get a 50% discount using code PRM-DEVREL at

• @Steven Wu - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - Fix data clustering in streaming write to Iceberg https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-951063 • @Alex Merced - Tuning the Iceberg: Practical Strategies for Optimizing Tables and Queries https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-956093 • @Russell Spitzer - What the Spec?!: New Features in Apache Iceberg™ Table Format V3 https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-957876 • @David Anderson - Unlocking the Mysteries of Apache Flink https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-955364 • @Tom Thornton Change Data Capture at Scale: Insights from Slack’s Streaming Pipeline https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-932237 • @Sujay Jain & @Bhargavi Reddy Dokuru - Press Play on Data: Netflix’s Journey from Streams to Gaming Insights https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-956506 • @Weiqing Yang - Scaling Streaming Computation at LinkedIn: A Multi-Year Journey with Apache Flink https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-956562 • @Adi Polak - Stream All the Things — Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-956997 • @Gunnar Morling - Transactional Change Stream Processing With Apache Flink https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-956911 • @Zander Matheson - The Zen of PyFlink: The evolution towards a truly “pythonic” Flink https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-954451 • @Allison Chang - Scaling the Past: Productionalizing the Flink History Server at LinkedIn for Stream and Batch https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-928165 • @Michael Peacock & @Andrew Hahn - Empowering the Disconnected Edge: Shifting Far Left with Predictive Analytics for Naval Ships https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-956295 • @Rupesh More & Guruguha Marur Sreenivasa - Powering Real-Time Vehicle Intelligence at Rivian with Apache Flink https://current.confluent.io/new-orleans/sessions#session-954053

Why MCP really is a big deal

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:49:43 +0000

04 Sep 2025

Why MCP really is a big deal

youtube.com

Now I wish I’d watched this before I tried figuring it out for myself 😅 Tim Berglund nails it in this crystal-clear explanation of MCP

Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:05:25 +0000

21 Aug 2025

Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Khayyam Guliyev, Duarte Nunes, Ming Chen, Justin Jaffray · datadoghq.com

Details of how DataDog built a new time series storage in Rust, replacing five previous generations of platform, giving 60x ingest speed and 5x faster queries

How We Accidentally Became One of UK’s First StarRocks Production Pioneers

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:58:58 +0000

21 Aug 2025

How We Accidentally Became One of UK’s First StarRocks Production Pioneers

Anton Borisov · medium.com

Ostensibly about the adoption of StarRocks at Fresha, this blog post goes into a bunch of interesting detail about data platform architecture, migration strategy, data serving tiers, and more - recommended! https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/fresha-data-engineering/how-we-accidentally-became-one-of-uks-first-starrocks-production-pioneers-7db249f10010

a man in a striped shirt is yawning in a bathroom .

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:28:55 +0000

20 Aug 2025

a man in a striped shirt is yawning in a bathroom .

media.tenor.com

srsly, probably 50% of the articles with interesting titles are just AI-generated crap. Smells include 🫵all✅the💽emojis • bullet • lists and then crappy ascii-art diagrams.

(I guess this list’ll get fed back into LLMs so they learn how to produce this shit better…)

Apache Flink 2.1.0: Ushers in a New Era of Unified Real-Time Data + AI with Comprehensive Upgrades

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:19:36 +0000

31 Jul 2025

Apache Flink 2.1.0: Ushers in a New Era of Unified Real-Time Data + AI with Comprehensive Upgrades

flink.apache.org

I should go on vacation more often—whilst I was away ApacheFlink 2.1 was been released!

Unlearning Data Architecture: 10 Myths Worth Killing

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:08:32 +0000

18 Jul 2025

Unlearning Data Architecture: 10 Myths Worth Killing

Bernd Wessely · medium.com

Ignore the clickbaity listicle title - there are some really good points in this article from Bernd Wessely https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/data-engineer-things/unlearning-data-architecture-10-myths-worth-killing-946e728f1acf

Apache Kafka

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:10:16 +0000

01 Jul 2025

Apache Kafka

kafka.apache.org

If you run ApacheKafka, this page is worth keeping an eye on. There were three CVEs published earlier this month impacting various versions including up to 3.9.0

Inside Data Cloud's Open Lakehouse: Powered by Apache Iceberg

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:10:01 +0000

01 Jul 2025

Inside Data Cloud's Open Lakehouse: Powered by Apache Iceberg

Sreeram Garlapati · engineering.salesforce.com

Some details of SFDC’s lakehouse, with 4 million tables and 50PB of data, built on ApacheIceberg

If you're interested in how new features are introduced for open source projects governed by the ASF

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:00:49 +0000

05 Jun 2025

If you're interested in how new features are introduced for open source projects governed by the ASF

lists.apache.org

If you’re interested in how new features are introduced for open source projects governed by the ASF, this thread about Apache Flink is a good example of the kinds of discussions that happen, and all in the open

Crafting a CFP that gets noticed isn’t magic—it’s structure, story, and a little guts.

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:12:39 +0000

05 Jun 2025

Crafting a CFP that gets noticed isn’t magic—it’s structure, story, and a little guts.

Adi Polak · adipolak.substack.com

✨✨ Want some tips on writing a winning abstract? ✨✨ 👇 Check out these resources 👇

💥 @adipolak.bsky.social:

💥 @tlberglund.bsky.social: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0g3QoCuqH4&t=13s

💥 A few blog posts from me too :) https://rmoff.net/categories/abstracts/

Current New Orleans 2025: Call for Speakers

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:59:58 +0000

05 Jun 2025

Current New Orleans 2025: Call for Speakers

sessionize.com

Got a cool story about something in the data engineering space? You should 💯 submit it as a talk to Current 2025 in New Orleans 😁

Do it! Now! CfP is open until 15th June.

(Pro-tip: you only need an abstract at this point; writing the talk can be later 😅)

SQL LEFT JOIN Keyword

Mon, 12 May 2025 13:01:01 +0000

12 May 2025

SQL LEFT JOIN Keyword

w3schools.com

Hey dataBS, what’s your go-to explainer for the different types of SQL JOIN?

seems pretty legit, but since the topic seems to be near the top of every SEO growth hack 🤢 for any company vaguely DB-related, I figure there are going to be a few out there…

Data Analyst or Data Engineer or Analytics Engineer or BI Engineer ?

Fri, 02 May 2025 15:40:06 +0000

02 May 2025

Data Analyst or Data Engineer or Analytics Engineer or BI Engineer ?

Isha Garg · towardsdatascience.com

Even if you disagree with the labels, I found this worked example of the different stages of working with data useful

SoftwareMill Kafka Visualization

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:30:28 +0000

29 Apr 2025

SoftwareMill Kafka Visualization

softwaremill.com

what’s the smartest, slickest, interactive visual explainer of how a technology works that you’ve seen?

For example, this kind of thing

The Decline of Technical Influencers, with @Mary Thengvall, @Jason Hand 🖐️, @PJ Hagertym, and @Wesley Faulkner

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:36:55 +0000

28 Apr 2025

The Decline of Technical Influencers, with @Mary Thengvall, @Jason Hand 🖐️, @PJ Hagertym, and @Wesley Faulkner

🌟 Community Pulse · pca.st

🎧 Two excellent podcasts that I listened to over the weekend:

🌟 @communitypulse.bsky.social - The Decline of Technical Influencers

🌟 @joereis.bsky.social speaking to @tlberglund.bsky.social about The Art of Developer Relations, Hardware Hacking, and More https://pca.st/sg4hv51z

Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:50:52 +0000

10 Apr 2025

Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines

blog.cloudflare.com

Couple of big announcements from @cloudflare.social today for folk in dataBS:

Acquisition of Arroyo, launch of Pipelines for streaming ingestion:
Launch of R2 Data Catalog—a managed Apache Iceberg catalog for R2 https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-data-catalog-public-beta/

Designing Event-Driven, Multi-Agent AI Architectures w/Kafka and Flink

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:05:24 +0000

10 Apr 2025

Designing Event-Driven, Multi-Agent AI Architectures w/Kafka and Flink

Sean Falconer · confluent.io

How best to meal-plan for a family? Using multi-agent AI of course! Love this practical and entertaining idea from Sean Falconer

Eject disk.

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:33:31 +0000

03 Apr 2025

Eject disk.

Greg Storey · brilliantcrank.com

“A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you.”

Technology Radar

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:13:42 +0000

02 Apr 2025

Technology Radar

thoughtworks.com

Thoughtworks have published their latest TWTechRadar.

A few ‘blips’ (as they call them) of note in the data space:

🟢 Adopt: Data product thinking 🟢 Adopt: Trino 👍 Trial: Databricks Delta Live Tables 👍 Trial: @metabase.com ✋ Hold: Reverse ETL

The DuckDB Local UI

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:01:51 +0000

19 Mar 2025

The DuckDB Local UI

Jeff Raymakers · duckdb.org

TIL the new DuckDB UI stores its data in a local file, ~/.duckdb/extension_data/ui—in a DuckDB DB, of course :)

blog.jenkster.com

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:38:53 +0000

13 Mar 2025

blog.jenkster.com

Much as I love kcat (🤫 it’ll always be kafkacat to me…), this morning I nearly fell out with it 👇

😖 I thought I was going stir crazy, after listing topics on a broker and seeing topics from a different broker. 😵‍💫 WTF 😵‍💫 Turns out that the ~/.config.kcat.conf I created last week and was so proud to thinking to do takes 🚨PRIORITY🚨 over any CLI arguments provided.

So I was merrily telling it with CLI flag -b to use broker X and it was merrily listing topics from broker Y that’s specified in the config file.

I still like the config file idea (@Kris Jenkins wrote a nice blog article about it here: I just need to remember about it next time 🤦

Monster Scale Summit 2027

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:17:37 +0000

10 Mar 2025

Monster Scale Summit 2027

scylladb.com

Looking forward to Monster SCALE Summit hosted by @scylladb.com which starts tomorrow. Tons of cool talks, and free to virtually attend :)

Here are some of my picks 👇

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:18:34 +0000

03 Mar 2025

reddit.com

r/apachekafka just hit 19k members!

If you’re interested in apachekafka, and don’t mind the Reddit vibe, come and join us :)

"The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" - A "Study" - James Pae

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:53:42 +0000

28 Feb 2025

"The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" - A "Study" - James Pae

jmspae.se

I love the hypothesis behind this thorough data analysis from @jmspae.se: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab”

Towards composable data platforms

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:45:22 +0000

21 Feb 2025

Towards composable data platforms

Jack Vanlightly · jack-vanlightly.com

As always, clear and thoughtful writing from @vanlightly.bsky.social, here looking at how data virtualization enabled by OTFs fits into data architectures now and future.

Apache Flink 1.20.1 Release Announcement

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:51:56 +0000

19 Feb 2025

Apache Flink 1.20.1 Release Announcement

flink.apache.org

ApacheFlink 1.20.1 released

> This release includes 75 bug fixes, vulnerability fixes, and minor improvements for Flink 1.20

Current London 2025: Call for Speakers

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:25:44 +0000

13 Feb 2025

Current London 2025: Call for Speakers

sessionize.com

Don’t get caught out! CfP for Current2025 in London closes on MONDAY!

Whether it’s a compelling tale of Kafka, a fascinating session about Flink, or an inspirational idea about Iceberg, this is where to speak to folk in the data & streaming community :)

Apache Flink CDC 3.3.0 Release Announcement

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:00:34 +0000

21 Jan 2025

Apache Flink CDC 3.3.0 Release Announcement

flink.apache.org

ApacheFlink CDC 3.3 has been released!

Highlights include new transforms and pipeline connectors for Flink CDC, improvements to the CDC connectors, and support for Flink 1.19+.

Oxide and Friends

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:57:02 +0000

20 Jan 2025

Oxide and Friends

oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm

Excellent @oxide.computer and friends podcast about technical blogging. Make sure you give it a listen—there’s some great history and nostalgia in there from @tbray.org and @will-snow.bsky.social, and a ton of great practical advice too.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:55:22 +0000

07 Jan 2025

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

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Too many vendors post completely half-assed year-in-review or year-ahead posts—which makes this post from Andy Pavlo so refreshing to read. Hugely informative and wittingly written too