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Travelling for Work, with Kids at Home
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My most popular blog post is one I wrote about Kafka listener configuration. But the one that I am most proud of when people says it's been useful for them is when I wrote about trying to get the balance right when travel is part of your job: rmoff.net/2019/02/09/t....
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2) If you’re proposing a talk that mentions your company’s product, realize that the committee will worry that it could be a thinly-veiled product pitch. Write accordingly.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
2) If you’re proposing a talk that mentions your company’s product, realize that the committee will worry that it could be a thinly-veiled product pitch. Write accordingly.
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Great tips! 2 more I’d add 1) In today’s blah blah age...please don’t let AI “polish” your abstract. Proofread, fine. But don’t let it blandify your ideas/style.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Great tips! 2 more I’d add 1) In today’s blah blah age...please don’t let AI “polish” your abstract. Proofread, fine. But don’t let it blandify your ideas/style.
How to Write a Good Tech Conference Abstract - Learn from the Mistakes of Others rmoff.net/2022/07/20/h...
How to Write a Good Tech Conference Abstract - Learn from the Mistakes of Others
Building the program for any conference is not an easy task. There will always be a speaker disappointed that their talk didn’t get in—or perhaps an audience who are disappointed that a particular…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How to Write a Good Tech Conference Abstract - Learn from the Mistakes of Others rmoff.net/2022/07/20/h...
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DuckDB v1.4 introduced the much-requested feature of database encryption. In our new blog post, @ccfelius.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org explain how the encryption works under the hood: duckdb.org/2025/11/19/e...
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
DuckDB v1.4 introduced the much-requested feature of database encryption. In our new blog post, @ccfelius.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org explain how the encryption works under the hood: duckdb.org/2025/11/19/e...
Waiting for SQL:202y: GROUP BY ALL peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/11...
Waiting for SQL:202y: GROUP BY ALL
Making GROUP BY a bit easier to use is in my experience among the top three requested features in SQL.
peter.eisentraut.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Waiting for SQL:202y: GROUP BY ALL peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/11...
🤦 I’ve been thinking about #Agents and #MCP all wrong!
So I wrote a blog about it :)
rmoff.net/2025/11/20/i...
So I wrote a blog about it :)
rmoff.net/2025/11/20/i...
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🤦 I’ve been thinking about #Agents and #MCP all wrong!
So I wrote a blog about it :)
rmoff.net/2025/11/20/i...
So I wrote a blog about it :)
rmoff.net/2025/11/20/i...
There we go, fixed it for you.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
There we go, fixed it for you.
I/O Observability for Uber’s Massive Petabyte-Scale Data Lake www.uber.com/blog/i-o-obs...
I/O Observability for Uber’s Massive Petabyte-Scale Data Lake
As Uber’s data infrastructure evolves toward a hybrid cloud architecture, understanding data access patterns across our platform is more critical than ever. This data I/O (Input/Output) observability…
www.uber.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I/O Observability for Uber’s Massive Petabyte-Scale Data Lake www.uber.com/blog/i-o-obs...
r/apachekafka just hit 19k members!
If you're interested in #apachekafka, and don't mind the Reddit vibe, come and join us :)
🔗 reddit.com/r/apachekafka/
If you're interested in #apachekafka, and don't mind the Reddit vibe, come and join us :)
🔗 reddit.com/r/apachekafka/
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
r/apachekafka just hit 19k members!
If you're interested in #apachekafka, and don't mind the Reddit vibe, come and join us :)
🔗 reddit.com/r/apachekafka/
If you're interested in #apachekafka, and don't mind the Reddit vibe, come and join us :)
🔗 reddit.com/r/apachekafka/
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Interesting interview with Matthias J. Sax, technical lead for #KafkaStreams at Confluent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDU...
Reimagining Stream Processing with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 9 | Confluent Developer
Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Viktor Gamov talks to Matthias J. Sax (Confluent) about his career in stream processing and, specifically, Kafka Streams. Matthias’ first job: an…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Interesting interview with Matthias J. Sax, technical lead for #KafkaStreams at Confluent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDU...
A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol
developers.redhat.com/articles/202... - Good article from Federico Valeri
developers.redhat.com/articles/202... - Good article from Federico Valeri
A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol | Red Hat Developer
Learn about the Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol, a consensus algorithm that ensures fault tolerance and consistency in a network of interconnected nodes
developers.redhat.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol
developers.redhat.com/articles/202... - Good article from Federico Valeri
developers.redhat.com/articles/202... - Good article from Federico Valeri
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'Maybe next KubeCon needs a "Boring But Critical Infrastructure" track.'
www.distributedthoughts.org/while-everyo...
I'd attend that @ironyuppie.com
www.distributedthoughts.org/while-everyo...
I'd attend that @ironyuppie.com
Two KubeCons, One Conference: While Everyone Demos AI Agents, Engineers Are Fighting With Syslogs
KubeCon North America 2025 was actually two different events happening simultaneously in the same building.
The first KubeCon lived on the exhibit floor. Every third booth featured some variation of ...
www.distributedthoughts.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
'Maybe next KubeCon needs a "Boring But Critical Infrastructure" track.'
www.distributedthoughts.org/while-everyo...
I'd attend that @ironyuppie.com
www.distributedthoughts.org/while-everyo...
I'd attend that @ironyuppie.com
How to Sell Data Modeling - good stuff from @joereis.bsky.social
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...
How to Sell Data Modeling
Making the Invisible Visible
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How to Sell Data Modeling - good stuff from @joereis.bsky.social
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/how-to-sel...
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch: www.nan.fyi/database - love the explainer/interactive animation in this
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch: www.nan.fyi/database - love the explainer/interactive animation in this
Oooh @yworks.bsky.social is niiiiice!
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Oooh @yworks.bsky.social is niiiiice!
hey #dataBS, is Cytoscape still the best tool for making really nice property graph viz? I used it 8+ years ago, just wondering if tooling has moved on to anything more user-friendly for n00bs in the field :)
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
hey #dataBS, is Cytoscape still the best tool for making really nice property graph viz? I used it 8+ years ago, just wondering if tooling has moved on to anything more user-friendly for n00bs in the field :)
A fun few hours with Cursor, neo4j, and Cytoscape analysing astroturfing and sock-puppet accounts on Reddit.
Common pattern of a handful of accounts posting 'questions', and then another comments on it.
Maybe an attempt at seeding LLMs, which scrape Reddit?
Common pattern of a handful of accounts posting 'questions', and then another comments on it.
Maybe an attempt at seeding LLMs, which scrape Reddit?
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A fun few hours with Cursor, neo4j, and Cytoscape analysing astroturfing and sock-puppet accounts on Reddit.
Common pattern of a handful of accounts posting 'questions', and then another comments on it.
Maybe an attempt at seeding LLMs, which scrape Reddit?
Common pattern of a handful of accounts posting 'questions', and then another comments on it.
Maybe an attempt at seeding LLMs, which scrape Reddit?
Colocating Input Partitions with Kafka Streams When Consuming Multiple Topics: Sub-Topology Matters! - Vishal Sharma medium.com/expedia-grou...
Colocating Input Partitions with Kafka Streams When Consuming Multiple Topics: Sub-Topology Matters!
Understanding how sub-topology design influences partition co-location
medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Colocating Input Partitions with Kafka Streams When Consuming Multiple Topics: Sub-Topology Matters! - Vishal Sharma medium.com/expedia-grou...
🌶️ Hot take: if you have to label your opinion as a 'hot take'… it probably isn't.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🌶️ Hot take: if you have to label your opinion as a 'hot take'… it probably isn't.
good stuff from @vanlightly.bsky.social: How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/11...
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
good stuff from @vanlightly.bsky.social: How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/11...
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/11...
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.
www.p99conf.io/session/chat...
www.p99conf.io/session/chat...
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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.
www.p99conf.io/session/chat...
www.p99conf.io/session/chat...
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🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition.
🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files.
📖 For more details, read
duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...
🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files.
📖 For more details, read
duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition.
🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files.
📖 For more details, read
duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...
🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files.
📖 For more details, read
duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...
Protobuf - use it faster, or don't use it at all? Couple of interesting talk from P99 CONF this year:
* www.p99conf.io/session/8x-b...
* www.p99conf.io/session/pars...
* www.p99conf.io/session/8x-b...
* www.p99conf.io/session/pars...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Protobuf - use it faster, or don't use it at all? Couple of interesting talk from P99 CONF this year:
* www.p99conf.io/session/8x-b...
* www.p99conf.io/session/pars...
* www.p99conf.io/session/8x-b...
* www.p99conf.io/session/pars...
I missed this release last week - #ApacheFluss now supports writing to both #ApacheIceberg and Lance (as well as the original #ApachePaimon.
fluss.apache.org/blog/release...
fluss.apache.org/blog/release...
Blog | Apache Fluss™ (Incubating)
Blog
fluss.apache.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I missed this release last week - #ApacheFluss now supports writing to both #ApacheIceberg and Lance (as well as the original #ApachePaimon.
fluss.apache.org/blog/release...
fluss.apache.org/blog/release...
Three Flink-related talks at P99 CONF this year - here are the recordings and slides:
* www.p99conf.io/session/apac...
* www.p99conf.io/session/buil...
* www.p99conf.io/session/rivi...
* www.p99conf.io/session/apac...
* www.p99conf.io/session/buil...
* www.p99conf.io/session/rivi...
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Three Flink-related talks at P99 CONF this year - here are the recordings and slides:
* www.p99conf.io/session/apac...
* www.p99conf.io/session/buil...
* www.p99conf.io/session/rivi...
* www.p99conf.io/session/apac...
* www.p99conf.io/session/buil...
* www.p99conf.io/session/rivi...