Niels Berglund

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

Interesting Stuff - Week 41, 2022

Kafka Confluent & Microsoft, data engineering terminology, load testing Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 16, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 39, 2022

Kafka & Terraform, distributed system architecture, Protobuf - Kafka & Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 2, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 38, 2022

Kafka & Azure Serverless functions, Spark and churn predictions, the Raft protocol, confusion matrices, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 25, 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.