Niels Berglund

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

This post continues the journey towards creating a leaderboard system. In this post we learn more about ADX and why it is an excellent choice for near real-time applications, how to 'hook up' Kafka to ADX and how to ingest data into an ADX database.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 19, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 2, 2022

Kafka, ksqlDB recipes, Debezium & Event Hubs, Data Sharding tech, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 16, 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

How to Ingest Into Azure Data Explorer From Apache Kafka using Kafka Connect

We look at how to configure and set up Kafka Connect to allow ingestion into Azure Data Explorer.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 37, 2021

Kafka streams tables and materialized views, SQL Server & C#, parallel programming, Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 12, 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 16, 2021

The ins and outs if Kafka Connect, awesome deep learning, Azure SQL digital event, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 18, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 3, 2021

Kafka, Kafka Connect and the cloud, the value of data meshes, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 17, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 41, 2020

Trace Kafka messages, link Kafka clusters, start and stop Big Data Clusters, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 11, 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.