About Me

I also write on my employer’s blog (previously). whoami Robin is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, as well as an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and ACE Director (alumnus). His career has always involved data, from the old worlds of COBOL and DB2, through the worlds of Oracle and Hadoop, and into the current world with Kafka. His particular interests are analytics, systems architecture, performance testing and optimization.

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Talks

You can find most of my slide decks on Speaker Deck. Below are links to particular talks I’ve done recently, along with recordings where available. The Changing Face of ETL: Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers 📖 Slides ATM Fraud detection with Kafka and KSQL 📖 Slides 👾 Code 📽 Recording (live @ Milan Apache Kafka Meetup) 📽 Recording (webinar) No More Silos: Integrating Databases and Apache Kafka 📖 Slides 📽 Recording Kafka Summit New York 2019 Online talk 👾 Code (MySQL) 👾 Code (Oracle) Embrace the Anarchy: Apache Kafka’s Role in Modern Data Architectures 📽 Recording Devoxx Belgium Rated 32 out of all the conference talks Scored \( 4.

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