Anna McDonald

Anna McDonald

@jbfletch.bsky.social

Jessica Fletcher/She-Ra mashup wielding a laptop and an insane amount of curiosity Event Driven Everything, Kafka Duchess 👑 #BillsMafia She/her

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Anna McDonald
@jbfletch.bsky.social

In the spirit of never giving up, I am once again trying to show up to a foreign country with a correct power adapter. I'm aware I can search for this, my incompetence is undeterred by readily available information. So I ask you, what plug would one use in Greece?

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Apurva Mehta
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Is it end of the road for RocksDB in stream processing? Disaggregated state is the clearly superior architecture, with @responsive.dev investing heavily in SlateDB.io while Flink 2.0 has forked RocksDB. Here's why we've bet on SlateDB for Kafka Streams: www.responsive.dev/blog/why-sla...

responsive.devIf not RocksDB, then what? Why SlateDB is the right choice for Stream Processing.Why we think SlateDB is the right foundation for a state storage service for Kafka Streams.
Anna McDonald
@jbfletch.bsky.social

I feel both my wig and @mjsax.bsky.social and my puns should be shared on all socials. We released the first episode of our new show about eventing! youtu.be/aSeTAkYjeRM?...

youtu.beQ&A: Events, Eventing, and Event-Driven Architectures | The Duchess & The Doctor ShowFor their inaugural episode, Anna McDonald (the Duchess), Matthias J. Sax (the Doctor), and their extinct friend, Phil, wax rhapsodic about all things eventing: you’ll learn why events are a mindset, why the Duchess thinks you’ll find event immutability relaxing, and why your event streams might need some windows. To learn more about fundamentals across the Apache Kafka and Flink ecosystems, you can have a look at the courses here: https://cnfl.io/44IYQ1J The Duchess & The Doctor Show features a question-driven format that delivers substantial, yet easily comprehensible answers to user-submitted questions on all things events and eventing, including Apache Kafka, its ecosystem, and beyond! RELATED RESOURCES ► View another introduction to events and event streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bh10yAycws ► Learn how to reason about designing your events and event streams: https://cnfl.io/4bxkXui ► Read more about windowing in a Kafka context: https://cnfl.io/4ahfJBT CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 0:28 - What is Eventing? 2:37 - Organize Events Around Things That Matter to You 3:36 - Comfort of Event Immutability 4:09 - Answering a Listener Question: “What actually happens if I wait for an event but it never arrives?” 7:55 - On Windowing 9:33 - Closing Windows Using Flink .withIdleness or PAPI 11:28 - Sliding Windows Considered 14:50 - Hopping vs. Sliding Windows 17:02 - Farewell -- ABOUT CONFLUENT Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations. To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io. #kafkastreams #eventdrivenarchitecture #apachekafka #kafka #confluent #apacheflink #eventing #windowing
Anna McDonald
@jbfletch.bsky.social

I was chatting with @mjsax.bsky.social tonight and we both love Q&A's . I'm thinking about a podcast where we answer questions about eventing and streaming submitted by everyday humans. Working title "The Dr. and the Duchess." Does this warrant an addition to the podcast rotation?

Anna McDonald
@jbfletch.bsky.social

My Kafka Summit London talk recording is now live! If you are eventing with legacy systems kicking around these are my top patterns for success. https://www.confluent.io/events/kafka-summit-london-2023/pragmatic-patterns-and-pitfalls-for-event-streaming-in-brownfield/

confluent.ioPragmatic Patterns (and Pitfalls) for Event Streaming in Brownfield Environments with Anna McDonaldPragmatic Patterns (and Pitfalls) for Event Streaming in Brownfield Environments
Anna McDonald
@jbfletch.bsky.social

I legit think it's a conspiracy, 87.5% of the time I endeavor to be professional someone plays "Cute without the "E"." The last time it happened I was trying to discuss SLAs for fraud. Best Taking Back Sunday song of all time imnsho

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