Niels Berglund

Develop a Real-Time Leaderboard Using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer - Prelude

This post is the first in a series about developing online gaming leaderboards. This post sets the foundation and you use Docker to run Kafka as well as Python in a container generating and publishing events.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 26, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 7, 2023

So this week, I link to posts about the new v2 Python programming model for Azure functions as well as 'Tinder' for Azure Data Explorer, a.k.a 'Find a Partner'. Then there is quite a bit about OpenAI: use OpenAI in Synapse Analytics, a link to a post by John Gruber about the new Bing, etc.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 19, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 4, 2023

This roundup, which arrives one day earlier than usual, looks at cloud OLTP databases and whether we can get them to be really scalable. There is a link to a post looking at *Azure Data Explorer** together with Azure Serverless functions - very cool! An interesting post about ML in online gaming, plus a lot of other cool stuff.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, January 28, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 3, 2023

This week we look at cool visualizations in Azure Data Explorer using Plotly. Interesting about benefits and challenges of distributed computing. Comparison of different SQL-based streaming approaches and their use cases, including a look at a streaming database. A really good post about Time in Flink.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 22, 2023

Interesting Stuff - XMas, New Year 2022, Week 1 2023

In this post we look at a excellent resource for Azure Machine Learning. Of course, when we talk about machine learning, we need to mention ChatGPT. We look at the "Tinder" app for **Azure Data Explorer** - "Find my partner". The BIG one the post looks at is how Confluent acquires Immerok, which offers a fully managed Flink implementation!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 8, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 50, 2022

Kafka & streaming .NET apps, Azure Data Explorer & AI/ML, ChatGPT awesomeness, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 18, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 48, 2022

Kafka & real-time or not real-time, Azure Data Explorer architecture, OpenAI ChatGPT awesomeness, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 4, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 47, 2022

Kafka & partitions, distributed databases, Blockchain & AWS, Netflix anomaly detection, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 27, 2022

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 42, 2022

ksqlDB new version released, new features in Azure Data Explorer, Netflix AI/ML orchestrator, Dapr & AKS, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 23, 2022

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