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 deep dive into Kafka Connect's Single Message Transforms (SMT), exploring their use for data manipulation within the pipeline.
Final part of a series exploring community-built Single Message Transformations (SMTs) for Apache Kafka Connect, highlighting useful plugins.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect predicates and the Filter SMT to conditionally transform and drop messages, with a practical example of field renaming.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's ReplaceField Single Message Transform to include, exclude, or rename fields in data streams.
How to automate publishing future-dated Hugo blog posts using scheduled GitHub Actions workflows.
Explains how to use the Cast Single Message Transform in Kafka Connect to change data types of fields in Kafka messages.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's TimestampConverter SMT to transform timestamp fields between string and native types for proper data handling.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's TimestampRouter SMT to dynamically route messages to time-partitioned topics based on message timestamps.
Day 6 of a series on Kafka Connect Single Message Transforms, focusing on using InsertField to add static values and Kafka metadata to messages.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's MaskField Single Message Transform to mask sensitive data fields like credit card numbers during data ingestion.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's RegExRouter SMT to rename topics for source connectors and target objects for sink connectors.
Explains how to use the Flatten Single Message Transform (SMT) in Kafka Connect to convert nested JSON data into a flat structure for database insertion.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's ValueToKey and ExtractField Single Message Transforms to set message keys from data fields.
Explains how to use Kafka Connect's InsertField Single Message Transform (SMT) to add message timestamps to data sent to a sink.
A Developer Advocate reflects on the impact of the pandemic and the rise of virtual conferences on the DevRel role, sharing speaker insights and challenges.
A developer shares their home office workstation setup, including hardware, peripherals, and software tools used for development and remote talks.
Explains why the 'Replace Fonts' option is disabled in Apple Keynote and provides a simple solution to fix it.
A technical guide on using Kafka tombstone messages with Kafka Connect and ksqlDB to handle logical deletions from a PostgreSQL source to Elasticsearch.
Tutorial on streaming geolocation data from Kafka to Elasticsearch, covering mapping and data formatting using ksqlDB.
Explains how to model variable fields in ksqlDB using MAP instead of STRUCT for nested data, with practical examples.
