Price goes up tomorrow - Launch week ending. Today is the last day to get the Kafka Streams Field Guide at a 15% launch discount. If you’ve been meaning to grab it, now’s the time. kafkastreamsfieldguide.com #ApacheKafka #KafkaStreams

Troubleshooting a Kafka Streams issue can cost multiple hours. The Kafka Streams Field Guide helps you avoid OOMs, state-sharing bugs, long rebalances, and fragile exception handling. If it saves you one afternoon of troubleshooting, it’s paid for itself 👉Get your copy now kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

Get my Kafka Streams Performance Pack (Free PDF). Two critical chapters from my new Kafka Streams Field Guide on the topics that matter most in production. #ApacheKafka #KafkaStreams

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

The wait is over — my Kafka Streams Field Guide is officially released! 🎉 🚀 Launch week = 15% off (auto‑applied on checkout) Get your copy now! 👉 kafkastreamsfieldguide.com #Kafka #KafkaStreams

🚀 It’s almost time — the Kafka Streams Field Guide releases TOMORROW! This isn’t a beginner’s guide. It’s built for engineers who want to understand the framework deeply, solve real issues, and design resilient, high-performance apps. Be ready. kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

🚀 Launch week is almost here! The #KafkaStreams Field Guide drops next Tue, Dec 16 — and early buyers get 15% off during launch week with code LAUNCHWEEK (auto-applied at checkout). I’m also using purchasing power parity so you get a fair regional price. kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

📣 Release Date Announcement! My #KafkaStreams Field Guide releases next Tuesday, Dec 16th! I can’t wait to share my 8 insights from running Kafka Streams in production—so you can build & deploy with confidence. kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

IBM acquires Confluent, the #Kafka company. newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-i...

🚀 I've built a new interactive simulation of #Kafka Streams, showcasing state stores! See state stores being restored, switch between RocksDB & in-memory state store behavior,restart tasks. Great for understanding or explaining Kafka Streams! Try it here: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/tools/state-...

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m... After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here. In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.

Wait what's this?! I've managed to pull my finger out to ship a list of **a whole lot of interesting links about stuff going on in the world of data for November**, a whole three days left until the end of the month! rmoff.net/2025/11/26/i...

Interesting interview with Matthias J. Sax, technical lead for #KafkaStreams at Confluent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDU...

Just published my #KafkaStreams news summary! 🔥 Highlights: 4.1.1 bug-fix release, upcoming DLQ feature for Kafka Streams, new Streams UI in Confluent Cloud, Current sessions, & more. kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf... #ApacheKafka

Keeper was a really unique game with a beautiful art style. Double Fine now released this making of documentary. Loved the behind the scenes look! #gamedev youtu.be/1OOfRTfMnx0?...

We are happy to share that the Apache Kafka 4.1.1 bug-fix release is now available! It contains a critical memory-leak fix for #KafkaStreams and many other fixes. For details see kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_... Thanks to 32 contributors and Lianet Magrans as our RM.

🚀 I've built an interactive simulation of #Kafka Streams’ architecture! See messages flow through the simulation. Tweak partitions, threads and throughput. Watch how it impacts processing. Great for understanding or explaining Kafka Streams! Try it here: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/tools/intera...

Exciting news about my #KafkaStreams Field Guide! 📚 ✅ Will be available in HTML, PDF, and EPUB ✅ Code examples in both Java and Scala Read it however you like, in whichever language you prefer. More details coming soon! #ApacheKafka #dataengineering kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

I've built a Core Insights dashboard for #Kafka Streams! 📊 This Prometheus-based Grafana dashboard brings together the metrics that actually matter. One view to spot issues before they become incidents. #dataengineering kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf...

Interesting new tool to diagnose Kafka clusters! Already has 17 scenarios built-in. They're looking for feedback to add more 👇

Great overview of Kafka Streams!

Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud. We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics. Check it out and let us know what you think! www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...

My Kafka Streams monitoring guide 👇 Learn which metrics to look at first and how to make them available for easy exploration. Discover new dashboards, new UIs, new tools, and other monitoring approaches next to metrics. #ApacheKafka #dataengineering kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf...

We are excited to announce the Apache Kafka 4.0.1 bug-fix release, containing over 40 fixes! Thanks to 53 contributors and your RM Christo Lolov. For more details, checkout the announcement: kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_...

Check out our big preview of MEWGENICS. I played 30+ hours of the game, interviewed Edmund and Tyler and put together a 35 minute preview about one of 2026’s biggest games. youtu.be/VyxbfbfXzQM?...

🚀 Announcing the Kafka Streams Field Guide! I’m writing a book with 8 insights for running Kafka Streams in production. Join the waiting list at kafkastreamsfieldguide.com and get 2 free chapters! #ApacheKafka

Great podcast episode on Duck Lake, with the creators. It's quickly developing into a proper Iceberg/Delta Lake competitor with a new twist, and I'm looking forward to its 1.0 release. #dataengineering www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/episodepage/...

🚀 We released version 0.3 of the DuckLake specification and the DuckDB ducklake extension today. It includes interoperability with Iceberg, support for geometry types and more. Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...

IT'S OUR NINTH BIRTHDAY 🎉 So we're launching a brand new channel - dedicated to discovering new games that push our industry forward, previews of exciting new titles and reporting on the issues that face gaming today. welcome to noclip_2 TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lf...

Had a two-day trip to Puy du Fou in France. A truly special theme park you must visit! No rides, only historical shows of exceptional quality and grandeur. Entire sets change before your eyes, with magnificent costumes, lots of actors. No other theme park comes even close to this one.

Apache Kafka 4.1.0 was release! Most exciting, the new “streams” rebalance protocol is available as early access. We are happy to announce the Apache Kafka 4.1.0 release! Please try it out, and let us know how it goes! kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_...

My experience with AI (Perplexity) in creating a 2-day schedule: terrible. Used deep research mode, but even with multiple iterations, it's not able to follow basic scheduling rules.

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

MCP servers for AI are finally working properly now in JetBrains IDEs. Time to hook up the context7.com MCP server 🚀

Iceberg topics for #ApacheKafka, as an open source plugin for Kafka brokers! While still in beta, this plugin by Aiven looks like it will become a very interesting alternative to Confluent's Tableflow. #dataengineering aiven.io/blog/iceberg...

It's alive! #buffengine #gamedev github.com/SlevinBE/buf...

Wow, enums are really the crown jewels in the #rustlang type system. I was thinking too much in standard OO traits/interfaces, but using enums with fields instead has simplified the event system of my small game engine a lot. Thanks, Effective Rust book! github.com/SlevinBE/buf...

While we are waiting for Apache Kafka 4.1.0 release, the development does not stop. We just completed KIP-1034 (cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...) which adds a DLQ feature to Kafka Streams. Very exciting!

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin on Netflix is such a touching story of how much someone can mean to a digital community, and how much such a community can mean to them, in this case in the game World of Warcraft. Highly recommended watch!

This Spark UI Simulator by Databricks training is really interesting! Has a bunch of pre-run scenarios in Notebooks, of which the effect is shown in the Spark UI. Descriptive job names make steps easy to find in #Spark UI's Job & SQL section. #dataengineering www.databricks.training/spark-ui-sim...

New data oriented file format just dropped. FastLanes, "like Parquet, but with 40% better compression and 40× faster decoding". 👀 Seems it can exploit correlations between columns and have fully SIMD friendly encodings to help with vectorization. github.com/cwida/FastLa...

Recommend watching The Playlist on Netflix, about the Spotify story. All very good actors (watch in Swedish with subtitles!), and interesting how they show the different perspectives on the story.

Added game object scaling and local->world->screen->clip space transform to my 2D Rust-based game engine. Finally, I can move & scale game objects in the world and play with the camera! So happy to be past the static triangle era 😅 #gamedev #rustlang github.com/SlevinBE/buf...

BuffEngine update: Added texturing capabilities to my #rustlang game engine. I finally have a game character on the screen! 😅 Learned less about Rust this time, but lots about WGPU: textures, sampler, bind groups. #gamedev github.com/SlevinBE/buf...

Great 2-part blog on #ApacheIceberg spec design issues. Part 1: file systems/database history. Part 2: spec problems. Hope it drives future improvements! #dataengineering database-doctor.com/posts/iceber...

Using AI assistant in JetBrains IDEs with project context helps me learn so much faster. I ask "how to integrate textures in my game engine", and it works out a design that's actually useful. I then iterate with AI to explain every step, make changes myself, and come out smarter 🚀

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Very good overview of which statistics are being gathered in Apache Iceberg about the data and metadata to achieve better query performance. #dataengineering medium.com/@yogevyuval/...

Introduced Scene, GameObject, Renderable, Mesh, Vertex, Material and ShaderDefinition types to make the (basic) rendering pipeline of my game engine more generic. The engine is still in its early stages, but happy with this next step. #gamedev github.com/SlevinBE/buf...

Insightful comparison of analytics/query engines: Trino vs Presto vs Apache Spark vs StarRocks vs Clickhouse. Perfect as input for a decision record. #dataengineering www.onehouse.ai/blog/apache-...