Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 35, 2023

This week: From transforming banking with Dapr to building a Neo4j Knowledge Graph with Chat-GPT. Streaming updates from Hubert and cool stream-processing using Kafka & Flink. Stay updated on the latest in AI and streaming tech.

Interesting Stuff - Week 28, 2023

This week: become a detective in Kusto Detective Agency. Never write a README again, instead use GPT4Readability. Machine learning streaming with Kafka, Debezium, and BentoML. Stream processing performance report: Apache Flink and RisingWave. Data Saturday Durban 2023.

Interesting Stuff - Week 19, 2023

ADX as Vector DB & Similarity search. Polars for Rust. ChatGPT and Pandas = PandasAI. Real-time streaming ecosystem and other cool stuff.

Interesting Stuff - Week 13, 2023

This week: be cool, read about Polar vs Pandas. How to ingest data into ADX. On the streaming side really interesting about how to do Canary releases for streaming platforms. Also something extremely interesting: Machine Learning and Data Streaming!

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.

Interesting Stuff - Week 8, 2023

This week I cover Linux containers on Apple Silicon. There is also how to use Mastodon, Kafka and Open Search together. Let us not forget my post about leaderboards and Azure Data Explorer.

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

This post is the first in a series about developing online gaming leaderboards. This post sets the foundation and you use Docker to run Kafka as well as Python in a container generating and publishing events.

Interesting Stuff - Week 37, 2022

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

Interesting Stuff - Week 21, 2022

Kafka & what is new in 3.2, Azure EventHubs Premium for performance, Predictive scaling in Azure Data Explorer, and other interesting topics.

Interesting Stuff - Week 17, 2022

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