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 …
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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 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 …
Goodbye Confluent
TL;DR May 6th, 2021, was my last day at Confluent. Here is an email, that I sent to my former co-workers @ConfluentInc. …
5 Kubernetes Tools You Probably Don't Use (But You Should)
TL;DR In this post, I’m going to talk about few tools that I found very useful during my Kubernetes development and …
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