TL;DR May 6th, 2021, was my last day at Confluent. Here is an email, that I sent to my former co-workers @ConfluentInc. Dear team, I’d like to let you know that I am leaving my position of Developer Advocate on May 6th. I have really enjoyed my time here in Confluent, and I appreciate having had the opportunity to work with with many of you. It was quite a ride, but I would do it again without any doubts. ...
TL;DR In this post, I’m going to talk about few tools that I found very useful during my Kubernetes development and presentations. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.1 03/26/2019 Finished draft v1.0 03/11/2019 Initial draft Earlier this year, I recorded a three-episode series, «Streaming on Kubernetes: It doesn’t have to be the hard way.» There I showed some demos of the Confluent Operator on Kubernetes. Many people reached out after and asked - «What kind of terminal do you use,» «What kind of plugins do you use» and so far and so on. And today, I’m going to be talking about five Kubernetes tools that I use in my demos (of during preparations to it) that you’re probably don’t use but defiantly should. ...
TL;DR This blog post inspired by similar posts of my colleagues' @rmoff [1] and @riferrei [2]. You can find all my speaking appearances until the end of 2019. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.1 10/03/2019 Added New York events v1.0 9/05/2019 Initial revision September 🇺🇸 5th of September: Washington, DC — DC Spring Framework I will be talking about integration between Kafka and SpringFramework. And I will try to live code! ...
TL;DR Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of «Presentation Patterns» book by Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough, Nathaniel Schutta and should be good to go and crush your next tech presentation. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.0 103/15/2019 Initial revision Preface Kafka Summit 2019 events are in full throttle. New York event is happening in a couple weeks. London event is happening shortly after that in May. And San Francisco Kafka Summit is open for speaker’s proposals. My DevX team at Confluent assisted with reviewing proposals. And now we’re helping many speakers with their decks. ...
TL;DR Life on the road. It’s a brief review of first three months of 2016. Major events - Toronto JUG, Central Ohio JUG, DevNexus. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.0 3/31/2015 Initial blog post Intro At the suggestion of those of you who read my blog and send me comments, I am going to try to write one post about travel and events per quarter. With that said, 2016 just began, and I have already completed five events to share with you. ...
TL;DR It has been an awesome year full traveling (roughly 20 states), POCs for the clients and the prospects, training (including public classes) and conference talks. While I am already looking forward to 2016, here is a quick recap of my 2015 with Hazelcast. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.2 1/6/2015 Added Groovy Puzzlers Video link from SpringOne 2GX v1.1 12/31/2015 Added Atlanta JUG video link v1.0 12/29/2015 Initial blog post Into 2015 has been a helluva of a year for me, which started off with a new job: the Solutions Architect in Hazelcast - Open Source In-Memory Data Grid company. In addition to travelling to over 20 states, I had numerous opportunities to share my programming experience and how to develop and deploy the distributed systems. I enjoyed the conference talks, blog posts, and podcasts (1, 2, 3 in Russian). ...