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How Netflix simplifies data movement
netflixtechblog.medium.com/data-bridge-...

more shitposting, or actually finish the three blog posts i'm working on?

Now…to _not_ include AI stuff would be akin to writing about data engineering but not including content about databases.

(Curious? here are my top AI link picks this month: rmoff.net/2026/02/27/i...)

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I still have to pinch myself as to how damned quick this thing is changing.

In September I approached including AI links in my newsletter [1] somewhat tentatively, almost apologetically, and felt I had to explain myself to my audience.

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[1]: rmoff.net/2025/09/30/i...

great article!

Brittany Ellich absolutely nails it in this excellent article: "But here's the thing: no one actually knows what the future is going to be."

brittanyellich.com/embrace-the-...

Excellent blog post from Nicoleta Lazar comparing query federation between Trino and StarRocks with sources including Iceberg: medium.com/fresha-data-...

Giving external partners access to kafka topics without exposing the broker External partners need our data and I'm stuck. Direct broker access is obviously not happening. Someone internally suggested a separate cluster...

Interesting thread over on r/apachekafka: Giving external partners access to kafka topics without exposing the broker

old.reddit.com/r/apachekafk...

Interesting Links in the Data & AI World: February 2026 Short month, long list of links

ICYMI: Interesting Links in the Data & AI World, February 2026

Cool kids link (SubStack): interestinglinks.substack.com/p/2026-02

Top picks only: rmoff.net/2026/02/27/i...

There’s a short window to get radically ahead by going AI-native. You need to act now. AI won't take your job. Being complacent about what's happening around you will.

Elena Verna - AI won't take your job. Being complacent about what's happening around you will

www.elenaverna.com/p/theres-a-s...

Nikhil Gupta: Building a No-Code Real-Time Data Streaming Platform on Apache Flink
medium.com/@nikhil.css9...

🔥 Added a "Top picks only" filter to my Interesting Links blog posts

Here's the latest edition: rmoff.net/2026/02/27/i...

A Context-Aware Knowledge Graph Platform for Stream Processing in Industrial IoT, using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for real-time processing
arxiv.org/abs/2602.19990

Interesting links - February 2026

✍🏻 Interesting Links in the Data & AI World, February 2026

Links from @gunnarmorling.dev, @nbuesing.bsky.social, @ssp.sh, @sap1ens.com, @neelesh.bsky.social, @rstephens.me, @justincormack.bsky.social, @sogrady.org, @simonwillison.net, @cassidoo.co, and more!

🔗 rmoff.net/2026/02/27/i...

📝 "Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet"

Today is the day--beyond excited to share the first release of #Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache #Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance.

👉 www.morling.dev/blog/hardwoo...

Mitchell Hashimoto - My AI Adoption Journey
mitchellh.com/writing/my-a...

I'll have a read of it, thanks!

Measuring Debezium Server performance when streaming MySQL to Kafka Debezium is an open source distributed platform for change data capture. Start it up, point it at your databases, and your apps can start responding to all of the inserts, updates, and deletes that other...

Measuring Debezium Server performance when streaming MySQL to Kafka debezium.io/blog/2026/02...

Introducing reusable Connections in the Debezium Platform Debezium is an open source distributed platform for change data capture. Start it up, point it at your databases, and your apps can start responding to all of the inserts, updates, and deletes that other...

Reusable Connections in the Debezium Platform debezium.io/blog/2026/02...

Joe Reis - What Data Modeling Is and Is Not practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/what-data-...

Claude the Instructor

✍🏻 How I got Claude to teach me dbt: rmoff.net/2026/02/20/c...

(and here's the hand-coded, human-authored result: rmoff.net/2026/02/19/t...)

I finally figured out what all the fuss is about #dbt!
Better late than never, right?

I've written up my notes here: ✍🏻 rmoff.net/2026/02/19/t...

woohoo, my quickstart for Flink got added to the Iceberg docs 🎉

iceberg.apache.org/flink-quicks...

oof.

I wrote about some alternatives here: rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...

Introducing uFowarder: The Consumer Proxy for Kafka Async Queuing Uber processes trillions of Kafka messages per day on a push-based consumer proxy in real time. Read this blog to learn about the thinking behind open source uForwarder before applying it to your use…

uForwarder: The Consumer Proxy for Kafka Async Queuing from Uber
www.uber.com/blog/introdu...

maybe LLMs are the answer to Brandolini’s law

Hina Gandhi - Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark
www.infoq.com/articles/age...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick