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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....
Travelling for Work, with Kids at Home
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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
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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
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
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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
🤦 I’ve been thinking about #Agents and #MCP all wrong!
So I wrote a blog about it :)
rmoff.net/2025/11/20/i...
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There we go, fixed it for you.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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/
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol
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
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How to Sell Data Modeling
Making the Invisible Visible
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com
November 17, 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
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Oooh @yworks.bsky.social is niiiiice!
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
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?
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
🌶️ Hot take: if you have to label your opinion as a 'hot take'… it probably isn't.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
good stuff from @vanlightly.bsky.social: How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 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...
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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...
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 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...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 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...
Blog | Apache Fluss™ (Incubating)
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fluss.apache.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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...
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM