Grab Engineering - Enhancing Flink deployment with shadow testing engineering.grab.com/enchancing-f...

In a fit of frustration with AI-scented tech blogs, I ran a survey to see why/how people were having LLMs write their articles. writethatblog.substack.com/p/report-llm...

The good news? Claude figured out the problem and fixed it and now it's working again :) If you're curious how good (or bad) Claude does, the code is here: github.com/rmoff/kafka-.... This is 100% 'vibe' coded (I directed it, but literally don't know Java; the code is all Claude's fault/credit).

Cloudflare - Our billing pipeline was suddenly slow. The culprit was a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse blog.cloudflare.com/clickhouse-q...

Armin Ronacher - Clanker: A Word For The Machine lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/cl...

🏃‍♂️ www.strava.com/activities/1...

Vibe coded a connector for Kafka Connect. What could possibly go wrong? Oh. (counterpoint: in the case of this bug, I'm pretty sure a human could have fk'd it up the same way Claude did TBH)

Nate Berkopec - Thoughts on LLMs in 2026 www.nateberkopec.com/blog/thought...

Teiva Harsanyi - How Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-brok...

data folk: what's your goto open source data viz tool? is it still basically superset or metabase? (i just wanna point it at some data and throw some charts and maybe a map together; deffo not going the "just vibe something" route :-P )

We promised more details on those Kroxylicious numbers kroxylicious.io/benchmarking... Shortest possible summary: we built a second cluster because the first one was lying to us. The full story catching that lie, and how complicated reliable numbers really are: kroxylicious.io/benchmarking...

Matthieu Bonneviot - When Event Time Meets Reality: Lessons from Building Billing on Apache Flink medium.com/@matthieu.bo...

#StrimziCon2026 just kicked off, join us to hear from maintainers and users of Strimzi about how to use Strimzi to full effect and what is coming in the future! community2.cncf.io/events/detai...

Pedram Navid - We need to talk about dbt databased.pedramnavid.com/p/we-need-to...

ICYMI: Interesting Links in the Data & AI World - May 2026 Covering Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and more! rmoff.net/2026/05/28/i...

Michel Tricot - Event-Driven vs. Polling Architectures for Agent Triggers agentblueprint.substack.com/p/event-driv...

Engineering Grab's unified, one-click data ingestion platform with Apache Flink engineering.grab.com/one-click-da...

It May be time … for the May edition of Interesting Links in the Data & AI World! rmoff.net/2026/05/28/i...

Allen Hutchison - The Koln Concert and Creative Constraints allen.hutchison.org/2026/05/03/t...

Just how fast does a crocodile swim? New post: measuring the overhead Kroxylicious adds to Apache Kafka. Passthrough: below measurement noise. Record encryption: ~25% throughput hit, but Kafka never sees the plaintext. Open source benchmark harness — run it yourself. kroxylicious.io/benchmarking...

Jeff Atwood - Don’t Go Dark blog.codinghorror.com/dont-go-dark/

Wading through the words, striding through the slop…it must be nearly time for this month's Interesting Links in the Data & AI World! Subscribe here: interestinglinks.substack.com or RSS feed: rmoff.net/categories/i... (and if you've got an interesting link to share, send it my way!)

Daniel Steinberg of curl fame observes that AI-generated security bug reports have become pretty good lately. Anyone still believing AI produces only useless slop may need to revise their views. Also, please fund critical open source infrastructure! daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05...

Lara Hogan - Be a thermostat, not a thermometer larahogan.me/blog/be-a-th...

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

🍽️ Excellent full english—with a fried slice!—to round off a jolly good trip to #current26

Happy birthday #kafkastreams! Ten year celebration at #current26

#current26 @gunnarmorling.dev talking about Hardwood, a new Parquet parser and (soon to be) writer

Clever reconciliation process using RocksDB #current26

Why marketaxess moved from DMS to Debezium #current26

Logically, it has to be streaming #current26

Kicking off #Current2026 with a thank you to the community that makes all this possible!

🏃‍♂️ Nice way to start day 1 of #current26 www.strava.com/activities/1...

YES YES YES posthog.com/blog/minimum...

Arrived in London for #current26

🏃🏻‍♂️ 🗺️ Claude and I have been having some fun, building a little local app you can sync your Strava data into and slice & dice your runs. It started off when I was out on the trails and wondering what other runs I'd done passing a certain point. github.com/rmoff/run-map

seeing how far I can get Claude to build a Kafka pipeline by prompting alone, without touching the Confluent Cloud UI or CLI myself. So far, pretty darn good. Claude making heavy use of github.com/confluentinc....

It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us. ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...

Today we're introducing the new Obsidian Community site, the new developer dashboard, and a roadmap of things to come. The future of Obsidian plugins: obsidian.md/blog/future-...

Who's gonna be subscriber #200 to my humble substack?… 🔗 interestinglinks.substack.com

Not really a "hot take", more like stating the bleedin' obvious: AI Slop is Killing Online Communities rmoff.net/2026/05/06/a...

Unbelievable energy from @victorrentea.ro at #devoxxUK!

Next up at #devoxxUK is Confluent colleague @olenakutsenko.bsky.social

Not really a "hot take", more like stating the bleedin' obvious: AI Slop is Killing Online Communities rmoff.net/2026/05/06/a...

Kate Stanley and Gantigmaa Selenge talking all about Kafka on k8s with Strimzi at #devoxxUK

Good talk from Legare Kerrison to start day two of #devoxxUK about optimised ways of serving LLMs

🏃‍♂️ Good morning London #devoxxUK www.strava.com/activities/1...

The 99th edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest is out! We have 2 releases is progress 4.3.0 and 4.2.1. I cover some of the 23 (according to my archives it's a record!) new KIPs created this months, as well as community project releases and blogs. developers.redhat.com/blog/2026/05...

The #devoxxUK talk by @hollycummins.com about performance did not disappoint! Excellent content and tons of great real world advice. Link to slides in the QR photo.