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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What am I fixing? tip: today() the day the test was created is not the same today() as the day the test run 😅

Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This year I won't be at #Current25 in London (have fun all of you that are there!), but here's my small contribution to the Kafka ecosystem. I wrote a blog post about how to combine Kafka and Tinybird for an IoT use case.

Why Kafka and Tinybird?
Kafka is the world's most popular data streaming infrastructure; it excels at handling high-throughput event streaming from thousands of IoT devices, providing reliable message delivery with persistence. Tinybird complements this by transforming IoT data streams into real-time APIs with sub-second response times. Together, they form an end-to-end solution:

Kafka handles the ingestion and buffering of IoT sensor meter readings
Tinybird processes the data stream, stores the history, and exposes the results as API endpoints
Your application or service can present insights through standard REST API calls
What makes this combination powerful for product engineers is the ability to work with streaming data, persist it in the Tinybird database, and create APIs to consume it involving just two pieces of software. Depending on your approach to Kafka, you can do this in an entirely serverless fashion, without worrying about any complex infrastructure setup.

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

some weeks ago I listened Cal Newport’s book Deep Work. I keep thinking if he saw my workflow he’d have a heart attack (to me, email is kinda focused). but I adapted and now have a noisy browser profile with slack, bluesky, linkedin, hacker news, reddit…

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A react context that syncs Clerk authentication tokens with Tinybird's API endpoints. Manages token state and session changes automatically, exposing everything through a single useTinybirdToken hook so your components stay clean and decoupled.

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

One cool thing about having internal users is that you discover new usage patterns `tb create --prompt` mentioning an existing endpoint and with the changes you want

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Tinybird @tinybird.co · 06/05/2025

Despite the proliferation of AI chat apps, Explorations wasn't a simple build. Read the engineering post with our experience on LLM orchestration, prompt chaining, tools definition, system prompts, and handling unexpected LLM outputs -> tbrd.co/explorations_tech

tbrd.co

Building Explorations A Conversational Analytics Ai

Visit www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/building-explorations-a-conversational-analytics-ai

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

people that use llms to generate SQL, which is your favorite? why? maybe it’s because it tends to go for more oltp than olap mindset but I don’t love any model 100% yet

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

If you’re feeling down, just ask Sonnet3.7 to change something it just produced.

Sonnet 3.7 telling me “you’re absolutely right”

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

back after a while. This still runs, right?

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My job these three years at @tinybirdco.bsky.social has been about helping teams use Tinybird and go to production. The journey is: - Start small, prototype and validate - Optimize - Connect to production ingest - Enable the APIs for the end users - Monitor that everything works according to plan

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Had issues with Claude Desktop's MCP server - turns out it wasn't reading PATH when launched from the dock. Fixed it with some terminal aliases to properly open/close the app. And yes, Claude itself helped diagnose and fix the issue 😄

claude desktop telling me how to fix him

$echo 'alias claude="open -a Claude"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'alias qclaude="echo \"👋 Goodbye from Claude\" && osascript -e '"'"'quit app \"Claude\"'"'"'"' >> ~/.zshrc$

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alrocar @alrocar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Model Context Protocol from @anthropic.com allows connecting LLMs to *your* data and do crazy stuff We built a Tinybird MCP server so you can now get insights from your Workspaces using Claude Just used it to analyze our website metrics, crazy stuff 🤯

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Al Brown 🐢 @alasdairb.com · 27/11/2024

I've been working on Bluebird github.com/sdairs/blueb... to send the BlueSky firehose to @tinybirdco.bsky.social. Yesterday @anthropic.com released MCP so here's the Tinybird MCP Server v0 github.com/tinybirdco/t... which means now I can use Claude to connect to Tinybird and chat with that data 🤯

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Al Brown 🐢 @alasdairb.com · 27/11/2024

Here's the chat transcript & Claude artefact for the dashboard www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/c... - while mostly getting things right, its interesting that some of the queries failed but it still gave some analysis...these failures are easy to fix, but that behaviour will be interesting to work with

tinybird.co

Hey Claude, help me analyze Bluesky data.

This is the full, unedited transcript of our conversation with Claude, whose context-awareness is provided by a v0 Tinybird MCP Server.

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It's super cool to work in a company where it takes us 1-2 days to have something in production since @anthropic.com released it 🚀 Basically saying "C; C; A; so cool, could you build a dashboard" you have it. tinybird.co/blog-posts/cla… Kudos to @alrocar.bsky.social @alasdairb.com and Cam! 👏

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Aquí Alex y servidor muy concentrados* en el stand de la #TRG24 Ana y Santana no salen en la foto pero también estaban y estarán mañana. Venid a vernos para participar en el sorteo del Delorean pequeño. *literalmente: centrando un iframe xD

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I've been playing a bit lately with DynamoDB —guess why— and this video from @alexdebrie.bsky.social has all the things I needed, not only on Single-Table Design and why it is used, but also DDB fundamentals like partitions, sk, secondary indexes... Awesome job. youtu.be/BnDKD_Zv0og?...

tinybird.co

DynamoDB Connector · Tinybird Docs

Bring your DynamoDB data to Tinybird using the DynamoDB Connector.

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Gonzalo @gnzjgo.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

how do you people choose what to post in which place? LinkedIn a twitter seemed kinda easy for me, but for twitter and here? Same posts?

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 26/10/2024

Yeah! There's a lot of folks on here now. bsky.app/profile/alex... bsky.app/profile/chri... bsky.app/profile/chri...

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