When writing Javascript using Oracle Nashorn, using the CLI program jjs is commonplace. If you are using Atom as your editor, you will need a few mods to be able to invoke jjs and run your javascript from inside the editor. Here is how.

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I got back from Berlin for the 2019 Flink Forward conference, and thought I would share some thoughts. It was a great conference, and it’s amazing to see the growth in the Flink community.

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In 2015 I gave a talk at PGConf Silicon Valley on the topic of using Ansible and PostgreSQL together. I had a great time. But I never posted anything from the talk. These tricks and patterns are still something I use today. So I thought I would share.

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Last night I presented this talk at the Austin Kafka/Streaming Data Meetup. It was a great time with a bunch of really excellent attendees. Lots of good questions and interest. A big thanks to the HomeAway team and especially the organizer Praveen for hosting and setting things up!

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Just getting around to posting this now, it’s been an absolutely crazy year. But back in April I spoke at Percona Live, and had a great time. The talk had pretty good turnout and the feedback and questions were awesome. It’s always interesting presenting Apache Kafka to database nerds (I’m one) because of it’s similarities, yet drastic differences.

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I wanted to share a quick piece on how to publish and subscribe JSON data with Apache Kafka using simple command line utilities. Here at Eventador, we use this set of simple command line tools quite frequently. The command line is very useful for both testing and development, but also sampling your stream to understand the data inside it.

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