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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · Oct 28

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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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 14h

More good stuff from Klaviyo with details of their platform including Kafka: Building a Resilient Event Publisher with Dual Failure Capture klaviyo.tech/building-a-r...

Building a Resilient Event Publisher with Dual Failure Capture

Our design for never losing an incoming event

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 17h

Hey @sarna.dev @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social, I love the idea of writethat.blog - any chance of an RSS feed? 🙏

Write that blog!

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 1d

ooh I'll check it out. Thank you!

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 1d

If I'm not using Keynote (which I probably will tho), what are my text-based slidewriting options these days? Ideally something asciidoc based, but can live with Markdown. It needs to not look like crap when presenting, too…

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 2d

that was a good read - thanks!

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 2d

For years I've used the "+" trick with emails when registering, and finally it paid off. Looks like surge are selling addresses (or got breached), and adobe are buying addresses for unsolicited emails ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I know, I know. In other words, bear seen wandering to the woods carrying loo roll)

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 2d

(🤦when you paste the wrong image off your clipboard manager 😬)

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 2d

yeah, that's one of the definitions I've got in there. Simon's writing has been really helpful 👍

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 2d

I'll check it out, thanks!

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 2d

What *IS* an AI Agent?

To mix my metaphors: I've been pushing this one around on my plate for a while now, but it's time to ship it or get off the pot. As it were.

So…what is an Agent? Have a read of this an LMK if I'm talking complete nonsense or not ;)

🔗 rmoff.net/2025/10/06/s...

A flowchart showing an AI agent workflow. User input flows to a central process that loops between calling an LLM (like GPT-5) and invoking tools (like servers, files, command prompt) until the task is complete. The system is labeled "my-agent.sh".

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 3d

At this point, ignoring agentic coding tools is like refusing to use Git because you prefer manually tracking file versions in folders named 'final_v2_ACTUAL_final'

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 3d

this bit tho, 💯 completely agree. especially the first and last points :D

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 3d

This is where it gets a bit uncomfortable for folk like me with longer on their résumé _in_ devrel than out of it as a _practitioner_.
I think the "goldilocks" balance is an experienced devrel who is _already_ part of the community that your product targets. But then, I would say that ;)

a man with glasses and the words " it 's true " behind him

ALT: a man with glasses and the words " it 's true " behind him

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 3d

Good article from @pedramnavid.com about building a successful #DevRel team. databased.pedramnavid.com/p/reflection...

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

Reflections on 2 Years Running Developer Relations

What is DevRel and do I need one?

databased.pedramnavid.com

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 3d

pssst… wanna free ticket to #current25 in NOLA later this month? I have a very limited number to give away to the first people to DM me!

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 6d

🌀 Streams, Schemas, and Swamp Gas: Why Every Streaming Nerd Is Flocking to New Orleans This October substack.com/inbox/post/1...

🌀 Streams, Schemas, and Swamp Gas: Why Every Streaming Nerd Is Flocking to New Orleans This October

If you’ve ever debated window joins at 1 AM or argued that “Exactly-Once” is a lifestyle, not a guarantee. you probably already know where you need to be this fall.

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 4d

Stop Avoiding Workplace Politics terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/s...

Stop Avoiding Politics

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

terriblesoftware.org

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 5d

Debezium 3.3.0.Final Released debezium.io/blog/2025/10...

3.3.0.Final

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 6d

🌀 Streams, Schemas, and Swamp Gas: Why Every Streaming Nerd Is Flocking to New Orleans This October substack.com/inbox/post/1...

🌀 Streams, Schemas, and Swamp Gas: Why Every Streaming Nerd Is Flocking to New Orleans This October

If you’ve ever debated window joins at 1 AM or argued that “Exactly-Once” is a lifestyle, not a guarantee. you probably already know where you need to be this fall.

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 6d

great work Gunnar! and that is a nice medal too 👍👍

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Mickael Maison @mickaelmaison.bsky.social · 8d

I've just published the 92nd edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest! It covers the 4.1.0 release, as well as progress on 4.0.1 and 4.2.0. I also covers new KIPs, recent community releases and blog posts.

developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/10...

Kafka Monthly Digest: September 2025 | Red Hat Developer

This edition of the Kafka Monthly Digest covers the new Apache Kafka 4.1.0 release as well as the releases in progress: 4.0.1 and 4.2.0. It also looks at the new KIPs, community project releases and

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 7d

Inside Husky’s query engine: Real-time access to 100 trillion events | Datadog www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...

Inside Husky’s query engine: Real-time access to 100 trillion events | Datadog

See how Husky enables interactive querying across 100 trillion events daily by combining caching, smart indexing, and query pruning.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 7d

If you're asked to do someting potentially illegal at work: know that if you do so, you're the one could well have to face consequences.

A few more stories about when engineers went along with illegal asks, and are now in hot water: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-...

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 8d

Data lake file formats.
www.ssp.sh/brain/data-l...

Data Lake File Formats

At the core of a [[Data Lake]] is the [[Storage Layer]], which predominantly houses files in open-source formats. These data lake file formats are essentially the cloud’s version of CSVs but with enha...

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 8d

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet.
📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...
📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
SIGMOD 2025

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 8d

Apache Gravitino 1.0 released: github.com/apache/gravi...

Release Apache Gravitino 1.0.0 · apache/gravitino

Apache Gravitino was designed from day one to provide a unified framework for metadata management across heterogeneous sources, regions, and clouds—what we define as the metadata lake (or metalake)...

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