Managing Kafka shouldn’t feel like an endless battle. Yet, for many organizations, it does: 🔹 Setting up clusters, brokers, and configurations 🔹 Tuning for performance and scaling 🔹 Managing downtime, maintenance, & troubleshooting

Agentic Analytics Demo Night lands in San Francisco this Wednesday 🚀 We're joining @inngest, @lightdash_devs, and @streamkap for an evening of demos from teams building at the intersection of AI, analytics, and data infrastructure. 🧵

npm install -g @ streamkap/tools @Streamkap CLI is live. Have your agent check it out and tell us what it thinks!

At @Streamkap our customers are ready for the future. Are you? Agents can't make the right decisions without fresh data. Do your customer and operational agents know what's happening now?

Real-time data is the heartbeat of enterprise AI, but traditional pipeline complexity often stalls the pulse. 🫀 @Streamkap brings zero-ops streaming to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, turning slow batches into instant, contextually relevant AI. ❄️ Build products, not plumbing. Learn more: 👉 bit.ly/4cKhix3

My favorite use case for AI lately? Excalidraw-style architecture diagrams. See a few recent ones attached here. I've been working through a backlog of customer case studies for @Streamkap and wanted visualizations to accompany them. Creating architecture diagrams that show before and after is a pain. I'm not great at it; it would have taken me like an hour per image. Then, I thought, let's see if nano-banana can handle this. Boy, can it ever. @GeminiApp Nano Banana Prompt: "Create an excalidraw style before and after diagram based on this case study." Then paste into the full text of the case study. Make sure you check the nano banana/image creation button.

Gave a 2 min pitch on @Streamkap's new native app which brings streaming CDC and stream processing to @Snowflake for the first time. Thanks to the Snowflake for startups team for putting together an awesome event

Yet another Fivetran pricing change😵‍💫 It doesn't feel that long ago that I was writing about Fivetran's addition of connection fees to pricing... Well, here we are again. In a post earlier this year, I wrote about Monthly Active Rows (MAR) that, for all its failings as a billing metric, had one redeeming feature: "Rather than tracking total rows ingested, MAR tracked net new rows. They argued that these net new rows were the ones that actually added value." Deletes and updates to unique keys already used were not counted. While I argued that the net effect was that MAR was not customer-friendly, this was the silver lining. No longer, now you have to pay for all updates, so MAR is transparently a more expensive billing per row. If you're fed up, @Streamkap has straightforward billing, is typically 3x cheaper than Fivetran while delivering lower latency and better reliability. We're also available on the Snowflake Marketplace and as a Snowflake native app coming in the next few weeks👀 Give me a shout if you are interested in learning more.

👀MCD for CDC.... ATTN: @snowflake customers (and AEs and SEs). You can now apply MCD (marketplace capacity drawdown) to @streamkap purchases for fast, reliable, simple to use, and cost-effective CDC for replication from your databases ---> INSIDE Snowflake❄️

Databricks → $100B Series K 🤯 OpenAI → massive secondaries Result → Public investors left watching from the sidelines In “IPO is a filter, not a threshold,” our CEO @PaulFDudley breaks down how we got here—and why Figma’s pop shows the hunger is real open.substack.com/pub/stream…