Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

A bit late, but the recording of my #StrimziCon2025 talk, Phased Upgrades of Strimzi Managed Kafka Fleets (hows that for a snappy title) is now up on Youtube: youtu.be/pEuYFFkQCUU?...

It's my last day at Red Hat. Tomorrow I & the rest of middleware move to IBM. I wanted to work at RH since I heard about Fedora on the Linux Action Show (RIP) decades ago & I've loved developing in the open with RH. That'll continue after the move & after all, no one got fired for buying IBM...

🐊 Kroxylicious Proposal: "Routing API" This looks like a very useful addition to @kroxylicious.io (wire-protocol proxy for Apache Kafka): dynamic routing of requests to different upstream clusters, enabling use cases such as union clusters and client-based routing. 👉 github.com/kroxylicious...

Going from 1 to 13 PB/day 🤯 thanks to moving from a self-managed to a Strimzi-managed Kafka cluster! Great to hear these stories of how Strimzi not only made life easier for infra teams but improved the service they provide! strimzi.io/blog/2025/06...

Ending #Current25 with a talk on Polymorphic Table Functions in Flink🤘

Great hallway track at #Current25, lots of ideas around Kafka connect, mirror maker, geo-replication, cluster balancing. Lots to mull over on the train home...

"Vibe-coded database schemas" 😱

Woooo 🎉 great to see Strimzi maintainers Kate Stanley and Paolo Patierno on stage at #Current25 talking about how Strimzi helps you migrate your K8s Kafka clusters from Zookeeper to KRaft

After a very interesting lunch time at #Current25 speaking to folks from OpenAI about Mirror Maker and what we could do in Strimzi to make things easier, I'm watching the Flink AMA MC'd by @rmetzger.bsky.social

My ⚡ talk choice at #Current25 is @hpgrahsl.bsky.social and vector stores in Flink

Onto something a bit more concrete now at #Current25. Improving CDC performance using Kafka, Flink and Iceberg

Kicking off day 2 of #Current25 by boarding the AI agent train🤖🚂 with MongoDB 🌿

Final talk of the day at #Current25, Async processing with Flink SQL

Learning about how OpenAI built its stream processing system using Kafka and Flink at #Current25

Next up at #Current25 Flink 🐿️ but with robots 🤖 (AI agents)!

Next at #Current25 a panel discussion on the past, present and future of @kafkastreams.bsky.social. I love the background...the likeness is uncanny...

Starting #Current25 with an overview of anomaly detection in Flink SQL. This is from Confluent and AFAICS uses their proprietary ML functionality. But there is work in the upstream to support the same that builds on FLIP-437 which added the model syntax to Flink SQL cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

Ready to start another Kafka and Flink filled couple of days in London at #Current25 Looking forward to hearing about stream processing with Flink, integrating with open table formats and this newfangled AI thing...

The agenda for StrimziCon 2025 is out and yours-truly is 2nd on the bill! I'll be presenting my recent work on phased upgrades of Strimzi managed Kafka fleets. There are many other great talks on their so check out the full agenda: strimzi.io/blog/2025/04...

If you're running Strimzi in production, you'll probably come up against the issue of wanting to upgrade the operator but not wanting to roll all its Kafka clusters right away. As this comes up a lot, I wrote a blog post with an example of how you could achieve this: strimzi.io/blog/2025/04...

Apache Flink 2.0.0 is out, featuring disaggregated state management (object storage), materialized tables unifying stream/batch processing, enhanced batch execution, deeper Paimon (Open table format) integration for creating streaming lakehouses and AI model support: flink.apache.org/2025/03/24/a...

This got me right in the feels...

Got a bit trigger happy in @vinylguru.co.uk. Finally invested in some John Coltrane and filling in the gaps in the Fleetwood Mac collection. Also very happy to have a copy of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack all the way from Japan "three, two, one, let's jam..."

This man is talking my language!

@vanlightly.bsky.social's Humans of the Data Sphere (substack.com/app-link/pos...) is a good read. Loving the discussion on defining Stream Processing (bsky.app/profile/apur...) and discovering Jack's posts on modelling and simulation in distributed systems!

Felt good to be at the first meeting of the Apache Flink Community Health Initiative (CHI) hosted by David Radley. Starting to make a dent in the long list of Open PRs and JIRA issues in upstream Flink project. Come join us! More details from David here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/addres...

The Guardian has had enough of X: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

After 15 years I finally left Twitter. I will miss what it was, not what it is. I made a lot of good connections there. Even got to see behind the curtain doing an internship at head office. But all good things...

After seeing @samaaron.bsky.social live several times (mostly at Kafka summit) I always wanted to try Sonic Pi. Well this is the kick up the butt I needed to finally dive in!

Thanks for the mention of Kipper (tomncooper.github.io/kipper/) @rmoff.net Now to work on Flipper (and learn some CSS)!