Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 6, 2023

You can read about the fully managed Azure Load and Performance testing service. The open sourcing of LMOps: a collection of tools for improving text prompts used as input to generative AI models. Also interesting is vector search, and what you can do with it. Finally if you are interested in Kafka there is an excellent introductory guide to Kafka.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 12, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 45, 2022

Kafka CDC & Debezium, Azure Functions & SQL triggers, Azure Data Explorer e-book, Azure BootCamp SA 2022, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 13, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 31, 2022

Kafka & modernizing databases, build a data mesh on Azure, Netflix data mesh, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 7, 2022

How to Stream Data to Event Hubs from Databases Using Kafka Connect & Debezium in Docker - II

Here we look at the Debezium connector configuration needed if we want to stream data to Event Hubs.

Posted by nielsb on Friday, January 14, 2022

How to Stream Data to Event Hubs from Databases Using Kafka Connect & Debezium in Docker - I

In this post we look at how to configure Kafka Connect if we want to stream data to Event Hubs, using Debezium and Docker.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, January 10, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 43, 2021

Awesome Kafka books, Azure Data Lake Storage best practices, PASS Summit and Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 24, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 40, 2021

Kafka & AWS Lambdas, Monitoring ingestion in Azure Data Explorer, Azure Purview, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 3, 2021

Run Self-Managed Kusto Kafka Connector Serverless in Azure Container Instances

We look at how to run a self-managed Kafka Connector in Azure Container Instances

Posted by nielsb on Monday, September 6, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 33, 2021

Kafka via Confluent Cloud on Azure, the cost of Big Data, real-time retraining, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 15, 2021

Run Confluent Cloud & Serverless Apache Kafka on Azure

Read about how to deploy and run serverless Apache Kafka on Azure using Confluent Platform.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, August 14, 2021

Technology musings about coding and data. Some topics: .NET, SQL Server, AI/ML, Big Data, Streaming, Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, and a lot more.