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Learn practical ways to cut data streaming costs in Kafka and Flink by optimizing batching, serialization, state, network traffic, and capacity.

Lakestream's Stream Materialization Framework turns a stream into governed Iceberg, ClickHouse, or OpenSearch tables without a separate connector.

Everything changes, including things that matter to you.

Current is the biggest event in data streaming. Over two days in San Francisco, developers, data practitioners, and tech executives will come together to shape the future of Apache Kafka, Apache Flink...

YouTube video by Spice AI

YouTube video by Spice AI

Streaming logs are entering a third wave: Kafka-free systems rethink performance, simplicity, routing, protocols, and object-native design.

A practical guide to building a generic, multi-table Postgres-to-Postgres replication pipeline with Flink CDC - one replication slot for any number of tables, automatic schema discovery, and a custom ...

Kafka Queues can scale consumers beyond partitions by reducing head-of-line blocking when message processing has I/O delays.

Kafka Queues promise consumer scaling beyond partitions, but benchmarks show share consumers still lag far behind standard Kafka consumers.

Learn how software engineers can build a valuable network before going independent by helping others, nurturing work relationships, attending events, and joining communities.

How software engineers can go independent: consulting, productized services, SaaS, courses, newsletters, and other realistic solopreneur paths.

Supermetal's new Iceberg sink snapshots Postgres data in 13 minutes versus 90+ for Flink, Kafka Connect, and Spark in this CDC benchmark.

Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

A compiled actor-based programming language with type inference, designed for concurrent systems. - nicolasmd87/aether

YouTube video by Andrew Lamb

Goldsky avoided months of re-indexing time and seven-figure infrastructure TCO by directly migrating massive Graph Node PostgreSQL deployments with Supermetal