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
A monthly tech link roundup focusing on Kafka, event streaming, and data engineering, including personal news about company acquisitions.
Using Neo4j graph analysis to detect astroturfing (coordinated inauthentic behavior) on Reddit by examining user and subreddit relationships.
A monthly tech link roundup covering AI agents, Kafka, Flink, LLMs, conference tips, and commentary on tech publishing trends.
A developer critiques common patterns and 'smells' in AI-generated and low-quality blog posts found on platforms like Medium, offering tips for better writing.
A developer's journey to understanding AI agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), moving beyond traditional data pipeline thinking.
A technical walkthrough of building a real-time conference demo using Kafka, Flink, and LLMs to summarize live audience observations.
Thoughtworks TechRadar highlights key data tools and trends for adoption, trial, assessment, or holding, including ClickHouse and Databricks Assistant.
A monthly roundup of interesting links and resources for developers, focusing on Apache Kafka, event streaming, and tech talks.
Explores the concept of AI Agents, defining them and examining their role in the AI ecosystem, with references to LangChain and Anthropic.
A monthly roundup of 78 curated links on data engineering, architecture, AI, and tech trends, with top picks highlighted.
A blog post exploring the differences between AI and ML, clarifying terminology and common misconceptions in the field.
Explains Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a pattern for improving LLM accuracy by augmenting prompts with retrieved context.
Explores the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in AI, covering major model families, providers, and concepts like hallucinations.
A developer's personal learning journey into the AI ecosystem, starting with an exploration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting LLMs to APIs.
A monthly roundup of curated links and articles focused on data engineering, Apache Kafka, and data platform technologies.
A guide comparing Apache Flink SQL, Kafka Connect, and Confluent Tableflow for moving data from Apache Kafka to Apache Iceberg tables.
A technical guide on connecting Apache Flink SQL to a Kafka broker on Confluent Cloud, covering broker endpoints and API key configuration.
A monthly roundup of data engineering links covering Apache Iceberg, Kafka, Debezium, Spark, and lakehouse architecture.
Explains the importance of table maintenance in Apache Iceberg for data lakehouses, covering metadata and file management.
A technical guide on using Kafka Connect to write data from Kafka topics to Apache Iceberg tables stored on AWS S3, using the Glue Data Catalog.
