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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 29/09/2026

My site for tracking OSS improvement proposals (ossip.dev) has had lots of updates recently, including adding tracking for strimzi.io, @kroxylicious.io and streamshub.io. It also has its own update feed on blusky: @oss-ip.bsky.social I also got a shout out in @rmoff.net's excellent newsletter!

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OSSIP - Open Source Software Improvement Proposals

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 27/08/2026

First Dolly, then Tim and now Optimus www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'til all are one....

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Transformers: Optimus Prime Injured

ALT: Transformers: Optimus Prime Injured

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 25/07/2026

OMG! It came! Now listening: Transformers The Movie OST - The Reformatted Edition

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 23/07/2026

Congratulations to Apache Storm on their 3.0.0 release: storm.apache.org/2026/07/22/s... I need to spend some time updating my knowledge of it, its been 6 years since I finished my PhD based on performance modelling of Storm Topologies tomcooper.dev/phd/

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Apache Storm 3.0.0 Released

Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for bat...

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 19/07/2026

I run Fedora Sway edition without a display manager, so I just launch straight into the shell. Sometimes, if I just want to write, I skip launching sway and just stick with tmux + vim, it works pretty well for distraction free working. I inevitably need to search for something and use kagi.micr.dev

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Introduction - kagi

Complete guide to the kagi CLI - a command-line interface for Kagi search, automation, and structured terminal workflows.

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Apache Kafka 4.3.1 was released. It contains a critical memory-leak bug fix for #KafkaStreams. Thanks to our RM Bill Bejeck for the quick turnaround on this downloads.apache.org/kafka/4.3.1/...

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Below is a summary of the JIRA issues addressed in the 4.3.1 release of Kafka. For full documentation of the release, a guide to get started, and information about the project, see the Kafka project site.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 19/06/2026

Burnham probably got most of the Lib Dem, Green and disaffected Tory votes. But damn... is it nice to see the Labor vote far ahead of the combined right-wing vote. Tactical voting FTW.

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 19/06/2026

Is that hope I feel.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 15/06/2026

We need to get to the bottom of Russian interference in our country and crucially hold those who work with them responsible. Please consider signing this petition from @hopenothate.org.uk to demand a wide reaching inquiry secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/193695/...

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Russia set Britain on fire. Demand an inquiry.

The men who tried to set fire to Kier Starmer’s house were taking orders from Russia. Our research shows this was not an isolated plot. It was part of a wider Russian operation on British soil. Add yo...

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 03/06/2026

I used to be part of Sky's team and played a part in the early planning of this migration. I am very proud to see what the team has achieved!

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 03/06/2026

Next up at #StrimziCon2026 is Sky Kistler from Reddit talking about how they migrated there massive AWS EC2 based Kafka infra to a Strimzi based solution running on Kubernetes: www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...

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From the RedditEng community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the RedditEng community

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Last breakout session of #Current26 is sticking with my Kafka Streams theme, a walkthrough of designing a production grade application based on Kafka Streams

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

A really fascinating talk on the internal details of Parquet. Gunnar is now finishing with some guidance on using AI tools for creating low level infrastructure code

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Now attending the World Premiere conference talk on Hardwood: the new Apache Parquet parser by @gunnarmorling.dev at #Current26

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Another Kafka Streams talk at #Current26, this time from Michelin around KS automatic resource naming and all the "fun" that comes from that

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

This was a really interesting talk with some great tips on using the new streams protocol and crucially some actual experimental results showing the clear improvement 👏👏👏

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Not sure I said "rebalance" enough there...anyway KIP-1071 is a beautiful thing

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Continuing the rebalancing theme at #Current26, with a talk on the challenges of large rebalances in Kafka Streams and moving to KIP-1071 based rebalances

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Buuuuuuut as the speaker highlights, assignment needs to be fast and shouldn't block 😔

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

I wonder if we could make a service like Cruise Control but for Kafka Consumers and have a custom partition assigner that calls out to that for rebalancing decisions 🤔

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Next up at #Current26, time to get into some Kafka internals and learn about broker-side partition assigners (post KIP-848)

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Kicking off #Current26 Day 2 with a talk from LinkedIn on dealing with trillion event CDC systems. Leaning about this Brooklin things I have been hearing about for years.

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