Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 26, 2023

This week I cover Hoptimator for data pipelines, using Confluent Kafka to reduce churn, materialized views and streaming tables for Databricks SQL, and Data Saturday Durban.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 2, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 25, 2023

The roundup this week covers Microsoft Fabric, some cool AI/ML and LLM (Large Language Model) things, and a very interesting article on the real-time streaming ecosystem.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, June 26, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 20, 2023

This week: Reinforcement Learning, Real-Time Streaming Ecosystem, Apache Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka Summit 2023, Data Saturday Johannesburg, Data Saturday Durban

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, May 21, 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 40, 2022

Kafka 3.3 released, Kafka Stream Designer, Polybase & SQL Server 2022, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 9, 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

Interesting Stuff - Week 8, 2019

Weekly roundup of what interesting stuff I have read in blogs etc.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 24, 2019

Install Confluent Platform (Kafka) on Windows

We look at how we can install Kafka on Windows in Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Posted by nielsb on Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Interesting Stuff - Week 14

This week the roundup covers SQL Server, Apache Flink, Reactive Programming, Distributed Computing, Streaming and Data Science.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 9, 2017

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