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 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

Interesting Stuff - Week 43, 2022

Kafka, debugging ksqlDB joins, Kafka schema registry course, Pinterest pin recommendations, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 30, 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 37, 2022

Kafka, ksqlDB and iGaming, date-time in ADX, Kusto detective agency, Spark & MLLib, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 18, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 32, 2022

Kafka & ksqlDB stream processing, Azure Data Explorer & Kafka, SynapseML & .NET, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 14, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 17, 2022

Kafka & clickstream analysis in ksqlDB, F1 telemetry & Azure Data Explorer, IoT & Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, May 1, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 13, 2022

Kafka & ksqlDB recipes, easy deployment of Azure Data Explorer, Niels & Macs, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 3, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 11, 2022

Kafka & new features in ksqlDB 0.24.0, how to run MSDTC and SQL server in containers on Kubernetes, and other interesting stuff.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 20, 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.