Checkpoint Chronicle - February 2024
Monthly roundup of articles and resources on data streaming, covering Flink, Kafka, Debezium, and streaming SQL developments.
Monthly roundup of articles and resources on data streaming, covering Flink, Kafka, Debezium, and streaming SQL developments.
A monthly roundup of articles and resources on stream processing, Apache Flink, Kafka, and SQL for data engineering and real-time analytics.
A tutorial on setting up and running PyFlink streaming data jobs on a Kubernetes cluster, including prerequisites and deployment steps.
A tutorial on setting up and running PyFlink streaming data jobs on a Kubernetes cluster, including installation and deployment steps.
Explores whether Change Data Capture (CDC) breaks software encapsulation and discusses strategies like data contracts to mitigate risks.
Explores whether Change Data Capture (CDC) breaks application encapsulation and discusses strategies like data contracts to mitigate risks.
Monthly roundup of data streaming trends, featuring Apache Iceberg, Kafka Streams, Flink deployments, and streaming SQL insights.
A technical guide on exposing a local Apache Kafka broker to the internet using ngrok for development and demo purposes.
An introductory overview of Apache Flink, explaining its core concepts as a distributed stream processing framework, its history, and primary use cases.
A developer's personal journey and structured plan for learning Apache Flink, a stream processing framework, starting from the basics.
Author explains their move to Decodable to dive deeper into stream processing, Apache Flink, and work with experts in the field.
Interview with Redpanda Data founder Alex Gallego on building a high-performance data streaming platform, his career journey, and supporting minorities in tech.
A developer advocate reflects on leaving Confluent, sharing lessons from six years in DevRel and announcing a move to a new role at LakeFS.
A software engineer explains their decision to join Decodable, a startup building a serverless real-time data platform, focusing on stream processing.
A data engineer explores the evolution of the data ecosystem, comparing past practices with modern tools and trends in 2022.
An analysis of key trends in the Apache Kafka ecosystem, including connector growth, self-service data pipelines, and stream processing adoption.
An analysis of current trends in the Apache Kafka ecosystem, focusing on connector growth, self-service data pipelines, and stream processing adoption.
A guide to automating ksqlDB query deployments using bash scripts and REST endpoints, with examples for local and Confluent Cloud.
A guide on connecting to managed ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud using the REST API and CLI, covering API key creation and setup.
A deep dive into Kafka Connect's Single Message Transforms (SMT), exploring their use for data manipulation within the pipeline.