Writing
Flink Forward Berlin Recap
October 23, 2019
I got back from Berlin for the 2019 Flink Forward conference, and thought I would share some thoughts. It was a great...
23 years with SQL — What was old is new again
June 6, 2019
It was 1995 and I had just moved to San Francisco, CA from Boulder Colorado. I had a fresh new job working on a proje...
The New System of Record — Eventador | Fully Managed Apache Kafka®
November 8, 2018
I’m fresh off the plane from two back to back weeks in San Francisco — starting with the Kafka Summit 2018 and finish...
PostgreSQL + Ansible one liners
December 6, 2017
In 2015 I gave a talk at PGConf Silicon Valley on the topic of using Ansible and PostgreSQL together. I had a great t...
What is Apache Kafka? How is it similar to the databases you know and love, and how it’s not.
November 13, 2017
I am just getting around to posting this now, it’s been an absolutely crazy year. But back in April I spoke at Percon...
Tactical Command Line Kafka
November 13, 2017
I wanted to share a quick piece on how to publish and subscribe JSON data with Apache Kafka using simple command line...
Hello Eventador Labs
November 13, 2017
If I have learned nothing in the last 5 years it’s play where you are at your best. Know what you are good at, and do...
From Zero to Stream Processing
November 13, 2017
Last night I presented this talk at the Austin Kafka/Streaming Data Meetup. It was a great time with a bunch of reall...