Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 14, 2023

This week: **Azure Data Explorer** (ADX) workshop, the third post in the series of building a real-time leaderboard using Kafka and ADX. Also links to building a GPT-powered application and a really interesting intro to reinforcement learning.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 9, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 10, 2023

Streaming, streaming, and more streaming. We start with an excellent introduction to Flink, followed by a look at the potential consequences of Confluent's acquisition of Immerok. I finish off with a link to a post looking at the benefits of event streaming.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 12, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 5, 2023

In this week's roundup, you'll read about optimized locking in Azure SQL (very cool) and why Flink is so popular. Related to Flink, we also look at operational use cases for Flink, as well as some Flink CEP "stuff".

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 5, 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 - Week 2, 2023

This weeks roundup includes links to articles and videos about using Azure OpenAI and deploying ML models with FastAPI and Azure, as well as a post about Change Data Capture and its patterns. I also discuss my experience with trying to run Flink SQL in Docker. In short, the Flink Docker experience could be better!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 15, 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 24, 2021

Kafka, Confluent Control Center, Flink & ML, Databricks AutoML, Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 13, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 31, 2020

Kafka, ksqlDB and keys, Apache Flink, Derivco Webinar, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 2, 2020

Interesting Stuff - Week 25, 2020

Kafka, Flink and machine learning, Azure Data Studio, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 21, 2020

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