Setting key value when piping from jq to kafkacat

One of my favourite hacks for getting data into Kafka is using kafkacat and stdin, often from jq. You can see this in action with Wi-Fi data, IoT …

Kafka Connect CLI tricks

I do lots of work with Kafka Connect, almost entirely in Distributed mode—even just with 1 node -> makes scaling out much easier when/if needed. …

Syntax highlighting code for presentation slides

So you’ve got a code sample you want to share in a presentation, but whilst it looks beautiful in your text-editor with syntax highlighting, …

Simple export/import of Data Sources in Grafana

Grafana API Reference Export all Grafana data sources to data_sources folder mkdir -p data_sources && curl -s …