Time Travel and Schema Evolution in the Streaming Lakehouse
TLDR Iceberg tracks every Flink checkpoint as an immutable snapshot. That gives you time travel queries on a streaming …
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I'm Viktor Gamov — I build, break, and explain distributed systems. Developer advocate, author of Kafka in Action, and co-host of DevRel Radio. I've spent two decades turning complex tech into something humans actually enjoy using. Lately, I've been deep in AI-assisted engineering — agentic frameworks, coding tools, and building workflows where humans and AI actually ship together.
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TLDR I built an open-source streaming lakehouse: Kafka ingests events, Flink processes them, Iceberg stores them as …
SELECT * FROM stream: An Interactive Guide to Flink's Table-Stream Duality
TLDR I built an interactive tutorial that teaches Flink SQL’s table-stream duality with animated visualizations you can …
When AI Alignment Experts Can't Align Their Own AI
TLDR Meta’s director of AI alignment told her agent "confirm before acting." It deleted her entire inbox anyway. …
Twelve Million Java Developers and the AI Ecosystem Forgot About Them
TLDR There are twelve million Java developers and the AI ecosystem built everything for Python first. LangChain4j fixes …
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