Robin Moffatt is a Principal DevEx Engineer and seasoned conference speaker with 15+ years of experience presenting at top events like QCon, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and Strata. He shares insights on developer experience, distributed systems, and cloud technologies through his blog, YouTube, and public talks.
625 articles from this blog
![How to win [or at least not suck] at the conference abstract submission game](https://alldevblogs.blob.core.windows.net/thumbs/article-4fd587087974-full-84e70595.webp)
A guide on writing effective conference talk abstracts to increase acceptance chances, based on experience reviewing hundreds of submissions.
A technical exploration of ksqlDB window start times, including creating streams, inserting test data, and querying windowed aggregations.
A technical guide on integrating RabbitMQ with Kafka using Kafka Connect, including setup, schema handling, and use cases.
A technical guide on using ksqlDB and MongoDB to analyze network syslog data from UniFi devices, including Kafka stream processing.
A technical guide on using ksqlDB and Kafka Connect to ingest and analyze Syslog data for detecting SSH attacks.
A technical guide on using SSH and Linux pipes to stream and copy a MongoDB collection from a remote server to a local Docker instance.
Troubleshooting a Kafka Connect 'Request timed out' error caused by a misconfigured offsets.topic.replication.factor setting.
A guide on how to use tcpdump for network troubleshooting within Docker containers by building a custom image and attaching to container networks.
Explains common configuration errors when setting up multiple Kafka Connect workers in a distributed cluster, focusing on network and REST API settings.
A technical tutorial on streaming data from SQL Server to Snowflake using Kafka and Kafka Connect with Debezium for CDC.
A guide to deploying a custom Kafka Connect worker in Docker on Google Cloud Platform, for use with Confluent Cloud.
Fixing the 'Public Key Retrieval is not allowed' error when connecting Debezium to MySQL v8, including authentication protocol solutions.
A technical guide on integrating Kafka Connect and Debezium with Confluent Cloud for streaming data from MySQL.
How to manually skip bad records when using the Kafka Connect JDBC sink connector to prevent pipeline halts.
A guide to using Kafka Connect to stream data from Kafka topics to Elasticsearch 7, covering configuration, common errors, and schema options.
A tutorial on using kafkacat to copy data between Kafka clusters via Unix pipelines for quick, simple data replication.
A Developer Advocate shares practical advice on managing time, avoiding burnout, and maintaining well-being while traveling extensively for tech conferences and meetups.
A developer's travel itinerary for tech conferences and meetups focused on Apache Kafka and software architecture for late 2019.
A guide to resetting offsets for Kafka Connect source connectors by modifying data in the Kafka offset topic, using tools like kafkacat.
How to configure a Kafka Connect sink connector to start reading from the end of a topic instead of the beginning.
