Niels Berglund

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 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 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 49, 2022

Kafka consumer groups, ChatGPT VM, autoscaling data pipelines, can we handle analysis, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 11, 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 44, 2022

Kafka and ETL, Pinterest using realtime user actions, Niels going to PASS, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 6, 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.