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I'm excited to be speaking at several conferences and meetups over the next few months. Unsurprisingly, the topic will be Apache Kafka! If you're at any »
An error that I see coming up frequently in the Kafka Connect community (e.g. mailing list, Slack group, StackOverflow) is: JsonDeserializer with schemas.enable requires »
Grafana API Reference Export all Grafana data sources to data_sources folder mkdir -p data_sources && curl -s "http://localhost:3000/api/datasources" -u »
Usually connecting external disks in Linux is easy. Plug it in, run fdisk -l or lsblk | grep disk to identify the device ID, and then mount »
Kafka's Connect API is a wondrous way of easily bringing data in and out of Apache Kafka without having to write a line of code. By »
A very silly PEBCAK problem this one, but Google hits weren't so helpful so here goes. Running a console producer, specifying keys: kafka-console-producer \ --broker-list localhost:9092 »
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Mucking about with virtual disks, I wanted to install qemu on a AWS EC2 instance in order to use qemu-img. Not finding it in a yum »
So you've got a Linux VM that you want to access the contents of in EC2 - how do you do it? Let's see how. First »
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After 5 years at Rittman Mead, 126 blog posts, 16 conferences, four published OTN articles, an Oracle ACE award - not to mention, of course, a »
I use BigDataLite for a lot of my sandboxing work. This is a OVA provided by Oracle which can be run on VirtualBox, VMWare, etc and »
Using the holt function in Timelion to do anomaly detection on Metricbeat data in Kibana: Expression: $thres=0.02, .es(index='metricbeat*',metric='max:system. »
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By default, the kafka-avro-console-producer will assume that the schema registry is on port 8081, and happily connect to it. Unfortunately, this can lead to some weird »
tl;dr Make sure that key.converter.schema.registry.url and value.converter.schema.registry.url are specified, and that there are no trailing whitespaces. I've »
I hit this error running Kafka Connect HDFS connector from Confluent Platform v3.1.1 on BigDataLite 4.6: [oracle@bigdatalite ~]$ connect-standalone /etc/schema-registry/connect-avro-standalone.properties »
Presented without comment, warranty, or context - other than these might help a wandering code hacker. When using SigV4, you must specify a 'host' parameter boto. »
Similar to the previous issue, the sample config in the docs causes another snafu: OGG-15051 Java or JNI exception: oracle.goldengate.util.GGException: Class not found: »