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
An introduction to Markdown, a plain-text formatting syntax used widely in software documentation, explaining its benefits and basic usage.
Author's 2017 speaking schedule for tech conferences and meetups, focusing on Apache Kafka and real-time data streaming.
Explains a common Kafka Connect error about JsonDeserializer requiring 'schema' and 'payload' fields and provides the solution.
A technical guide for exporting and importing Grafana data sources using curl, jq, and bash scripts.
Troubleshooting a USB disk connection error in Linux, specifically the 'uas: probe failed with error -12' issue on a Proxmox server.
Guide to separating Kafka Connect REST HTTP logs from stdout into a dedicated file using log4j configuration for easier troubleshooting.
A quick troubleshooting note about a common Apache Kafka console producer error caused by a misspelled property.
A software engineer's guide to managing the overwhelming flow of technical information and staying current in the tech industry.
A technical guide detailing the steps and troubleshooting for installing QEMU from source on an AWS EC2 Amazon Linux instance.
A technical guide on mounting VMDK/OVF/OVA virtual disk images on AWS EC2, covering conversion, partition mounting, and LVM setup.
Author announces leaving Rittman Mead after 5 years to join Confluent as a Partner Technology Evangelist for Apache Kafka.
Explores Oracle 12.2's new Property Graph feature for graph analysis within the database, using a practical setup guide.
Rittman Mead's presentations at BIWA Summit 2017 on Oracle analytics, Apache Kafka, and OBIEE performance.
Troubleshooting HBase failures after resuming a suspended VirtualBox VM running the BigDataLite OVA, with analysis of Zookeeper session expiration errors.
A technical guide on using Kibana Timelion's holt function for anomaly detection on system CPU metrics from Metricbeat data.
A technical guide on using Spark Streaming with Python and Kafka to filter and enrich real-time Twitter data for copyright infringement detection.
A technical guide to building a streaming data pipeline using Apache Spark Streaming, Python, and Apache Kafka for real-time processing.
Explores SQL-on-Hadoop engines like Apache Drill for analyzing ETL data processed with Spark on Amazon EMR, focusing on performance and flexibility.
Final summary of a project exploring ETL offload to Apache Spark on AWS EMR, evaluating cost and tech benefits for a cloud-based data platform.
Part 3 of a series on offloading ETL to Spark on Amazon EMR, focusing on running PySpark code on a provisioned EMR cluster.
