rmoff's random ramblings

11 Jul 2019

So how DO you make those cool diagrams? July 2019 update

I write and speak lots about Kafka, and get a fair few questions from this. The most common question is actually nothing to do with Kafka, but instead: How do you make those cool diagrams? I wrote …

03 Jul 2019 Taking the Vienna-Munich sleeper train
DevRelLife
23 Jun 2019 Manually delete a connector from Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
06 Jun 2019 Automatically restarting failed Kafka Connect tasks
Kafka Connect
24 May 2019 Putting Kafka Connect passwords in a separate file / externalising secrets
Kafka Connect
22 May 2019 Deleting a Connector in Kafka Connect without the REST API
Kafka Connect
09 May 2019 A poor man’s KSQL EXPLODE/UNNEST technique
ksqlDB
08 May 2019 When a Kafka Connect converter is not a converter
Kafka Connect
02 May 2019 Reading Kafka Connect Offsets via the REST Proxy
Kafka Connect
17 Apr 2019 Pivoting Aggregates in Ksql
ksqlDB
12 Apr 2019 Connecting KSQL to a Secured Schema Registry
ksqlDB
28 Mar 2019 Exploring KSQL Stream-Stream Joins
ksqlDB
25 Mar 2019 Terminate All KSQL Queries
ksqlDB
19 Mar 2019 Quick Thoughts on Not Making a Crap Slide Deck
presenting
08 Mar 2019 Using httpie with the Kafka REST Proxy
httpie
01 Mar 2019 Preparing a New Talk
presenting
09 Feb 2019 Travelling for Work, with Kids at Home
personal
29 Jan 2019 Kafka Connect Change Log Level and Write Log to File
Kafka Connect
21 Jan 2019 Replacing UTF8 non-breaking-space with bash/sed on the Mac
bash
21 Jan 2019 How KSQL handles case
ksqlDB
17 Jan 2019 KSQL REST API cheatsheet
ksqlDB
17 Jan 2019 Confluent Schema Registry REST API cheatsheet
rest
09 Jan 2019 What to Do When Docker on the Mac Runs Out of Space
docker
19 Dec 2018 Quick Thoughts on Not Writing a Crap Abstract
DevRel
17 Dec 2018 Moving from Ghost to Hugo
blogging
17 Dec 2018 Pull new version of multiple Docker images
docker
15 Dec 2018 Docker Tips and Tricks with Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Kafka
docker
12 Dec 2018 Streaming data from Oracle into Kafka
oracle
11 Dec 2018 Tools I Use: iPad Pro
ipad pro
10 Dec 2018 So how DO you make those cool diagrams?
paper
08 Dec 2018 Get mtr working on the Mac
mtr
03 Dec 2018 Kafka Connect CLI tricks
kafka connect
20 Nov 2018 ERROR: Invalid interpolation format for “command” option in service…
docker
11 Oct 2018 Flatten CDC records in KSQL
cdc
19 Sep 2018 Exploring JMX with jmxterm
Apache Kafka
17 Sep 2018 Accessing Kafka Docker containers’ JMX from host
jmx
04 Sep 2018 Sending multiline messages to Kafka
kcat (kafkacat)
03 Sep 2018 Window Timestamps in KSQL / Integration with Elasticsearch
ksql
21 Aug 2018 Where I’m speaking in the rest of 2018
speaking
02 Aug 2018 Kafka Listeners - Explained
apache kafka
20 Jun 2018 Syntax highlighting code for presentation slides
pygments
17 Jun 2018 Analysing Network Data with Apache Kafka, KSQL, and Elasticsearch
elasticsearch
07 Jun 2018 Compare and apply a diff / patch recursively
diff
21 May 2018 Kafka Connect and Oracle data types
kafka connect
17 May 2018 Stream-Table Joins in KSQL: Stream events must be timestamped after the Table messages
ksql
10 May 2018 Quick ’n Easy Population of Realistic Test Data into Kafka
Apache Kafka
09 May 2018 Blogging v2
blogging
27 Mar 2018 Streaming Data from MongoDB into Kafka with Kafka Connect and Debezium
mongodb
27 Mar 2018 Cloning Ubiquiti’s MongoDB instance to a separate server
mongodb
24 Mar 2018 Streaming Data from MySQL into Kafka with Kafka Connect and Debezium
debezium