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
Explains how ksqlDB handles case sensitivity for topics, statements, and object names, with examples of quoting rules.
A quick reference guide for using the KSQL REST API, including curl examples for queries, statements, and runtime statistics.
A quick reference cheatsheet for common Confluent Schema Registry REST API commands, including authentication and curl examples.
A guide on diagnosing and resolving Docker disk space issues on macOS, focusing on container logs and cleanup commands.
Tips for writing effective conference talk abstracts, focusing on clarity, relevance, and avoiding common pitfalls.
A developer explains migrating his technical blog from Ghost to Hugo for simplicity, cost savings, and Asciidoc support.
A quick command-line snippet to pull the latest version of multiple Docker images from a specific vendor (Confluent) in one go.
A technical guide sharing practical Docker and Docker Compose tips for working with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB environments.
Overview of methods and tools for streaming data changes from Oracle databases into Apache Kafka, including CDC options.
A developer shares his personal setup and experience using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and Apple Keyboard for work tasks like note-taking, presentations, and content creation.
A guide to creating hand-drawn style technical diagrams using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and the Paper app, with workflow tips.
Guide to installing and running the mtr network diagnostic tool on macOS using Homebrew and symbolic links.
Useful command-line snippets for managing Kafka Connect connectors via its REST API, including listing and deleting connectors.
Fixing a Docker Compose interpolation error by escaping the $ character in a multi-line command.
Using KSQL to flatten nested CDC data from Kafka for use with the JDBC Sink connector.
A tutorial on using jmxterm to connect to and inspect JMX MBeans, specifically for monitoring Apache Kafka and KSQL metrics.
Guide on configuring JMX metrics access for Apache Kafka and related services running in Docker containers from the host machine.
A technical guide on using kafkacat to send multiline messages to Apache Kafka topics with custom delimiters.
Explains changes to window timestamp handling in KSQL aggregations and how to integrate them with Elasticsearch for visualization.
A developer shares their upcoming speaking schedule for tech conferences and meetups in late 2018, focusing on Kafka, Java, and JVM topics.
