I wrote a short book on Designing Event Driven Systems which covers Kafka, Streaming, Event Sourcing and a few related topics. If you'd like a free copy you can find one here: confluent.io/designing-event…

🔥 It's finally here! I'm excited to announce that @ShadowTrafficIO is now available. Head to the home page to get started for free. For my entire career, I've been baffled by how long it takes to build demos, load tests, and proof-of-concept projects. Everyone's built little internal data generator tools, but none of them are good. ShadowTraffic is a tasteful, complete product that rapidly simulates production traffic to your backend—@apachekafka, @PostgreSQL, and webhooks. Help me get the word out: 👨‍💻 Hacker News: I'm on the /newest page 🛠️ Product Hunt: I'm listed under Developer Tools 📰 Reshare this post ShadowTraffic was built completely in public in just 90 days, 100% bootstrapped on my own dime. Thank you *so* much for following along guys!

Today I'm launching a new podcast looking at the future of software by talking directly to the devs who are trying to get us there. We kick off with London's hippest new language designer, Louis Pilfold, the creator of Gleam. 🎧 pod.link/developer-voices 📺 youtu.be/RntfkL8lUY4

Meet @OscilarInc, a company @sackulkarni and I founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest challenges facing businesses and consumers today: how to protect online transactions from fraud, risk and theft forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2…

All of the AI improvements are really exciting, but some of the demos I see out there are overblown. Basic litmus test: does it suggest that it'll replace critical thinking? If yes, dead on arrival. Save your attention.

Our first tutorial in Flink :) developer.confluent.io/tutor…

I'm declaring the company sticker competition closed. I've just won. This is unbeatable.

Adam's debut on the octolog is a great one!

Do you work with #data––streaming or otherwise? Read on! Come share your technical journey! Whether it's for #streamingdata, #realtimeanalytics, unique pipelines or just something fun, we want to hear about it at #Current23. sessionize.com/current-2023/

BREAKING🚨: Something Just Crashed Into The Moon And Astronomers Captured It blog.physics-astronomy.com/2…

The next installment of the octolog is out confluent.io/blog/benefits-o…

Cute and useful!

Interesting thread on the performance improvements in Confluent Cloud.

I was looking back at this blog series by @miguno. It remains the best short-form guide to Kafka and data streaming on the internet today. At least in my opinion. michael-noll.com/blog/2020/0…

Managing data-on-the-outside has always been a tough job. Are smart data contracts the answer? @vanlightly explores in this week's octolog: confluent.io/blog/trust-come…

I've seen a fair few people teach coding on youtube, but @krisajenkins is my gold standard. Who else is good at this kind of thing? youtube.com/watch?v=jItIQ-Uv…

We're starting something new, a weekly column from Confluent's Office of the CTO probing the different parts of the data space and how we build data applications. Here's the first installment: confluent.io/blog/introducin…

Congrats to all the speakers who were accepted for Kafka Summit. The programme looks really strong this year: a nod to the committee and chair @TheDanicaFine who put a vast amount of work in behind the scenes. kafka-summit.org/events/kafk…