It's DONE. SHIP IT. Finished my 2nd edition of Building Event-Driven Microservices, published by @oreilly.bsky.social and sponsored by the good people at @confluent.io. You can find this book on the O'Reilly learning platform (www.oreilly.com/library/view... - you get a free trial!),

Pretty slick blog from my (new!) colleague Gunnar Morling. Check out GraalVM for native binaries with Kafka

How many times does your organization process the same data? @abellemare.bsky.social introduces a shift left approach, minimizing duplication by processing data once and making it accessible across different use cases. Read here: https://www.infoq.com/articles/rethinking-medallion-architecture/

$1.5B for less than $20M ARR? Yikes. Is this a repeat of Databricks buying Tabular?

My new post is available on InfoQ. The bronze age is over! Rethink the medallion architecture. www.infoq.com/articles/ret...

Building Event-Driven Microservices 2nd Edition is a go! It's an ambitious release date, targeting the end of this year. 😬

Man, I sure do love the Gulf of Mexico. Check out that Mexico Basin!

I'm thinking of writing a second edition of Building Event-Driven Microservices. Any requests for specific subjects to tackle?

Since we're kicking things off around here, again, I may as well find the rest of my fellow Kafka fans: It's rough out there. Know the signs. Know what your loved ones are saying about #apacheKafka.

And the winner is: Apache Iceberg! Please commence the flame wars in the comments below. www.bigdatawire.com/2024/12/03/h...

S3 (Iceberg) Tables is everything I dreamt of, and more. I blogged some long-form thoughts: meltware.com/2024/12/04/s... I think we're about to see an explosion of data tools (@materialize.com, @clickhouse.com, @duckdb.org, et al.) learn to write Iceberg tables via S3 table buckets. #databs

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

My colleagues at Confluent just put out this video. I'm sharing because it's an homage to Wes Anderson, but also... really cool pastel colors, sets, vintage computers, and a mention to one of my favourite Canadian places, Victoria Island, BC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3V...

Just published part II of "How to Design Event Streams". Check it out here.

They're popping up like mushrooms after a rain! It's good to see the Kafka API is so widely adopted though, and the de-facto standard.

Hey cool, I made #2 this month: www.datacouncil.ai/blog/novembe... I wrote about how to deal with (and prevent) bad data in your event stream. It's on my company's blog: www.confluent.io/blog/shift-l...

Great post by my friend Jack - check it out.

Can't say I'm surprised. I remember the days when Twitter was actually good - it's sure been a long time.

Repost Wednesday: Data Products, Shift-Left, and Streams - how does it all fit together? In this post, I go into depth on how you can build a data product using event streams, schemas, and Flink. www.confluent.io/blog/impleme...

Got bad data in your event streams? It's gonna hurt. Learn how to avoid and fix it. thenewstack.io/how-to-handl...

Repost Wednesday: I've a series of videos about Event-Driven architectures, here's my first one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkS...

Databricks wants to merge Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake...