Ben Stopford

Data Tech Specialist. Architect. Programmer. Writer. Ex-Lead Technologist @confluentinc. Ex-Thoughtworks. Ex-Finance.

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

I wrote a short book on Designing Event Driven Systems which covers Kafka, Streaming, Event Sourcing and a few related topics. If you'd like a free copy you can find one here: https://t.co/0pdCqY3YeA

[Michael Drogalis @MichaelDrogalis]

🔥 It's finally here! I'm excited to announce that @ShadowTrafficIO is now available. Head to the home page to get started for free.

For my entire career, I've been baffled by how long it takes to build demos, load tests, and proof-of-concept projects. Everyone's built little internal data generator tools, but none of them are good.

ShadowTraffic is a tasteful, complete product that rapidly simulates production traffic to your backend—@apachekafka, @PostgreSQL, and webhooks.

Help me get the word out:
👨‍💻 Hacker News: I'm on the /newest page
🛠️ Product Hunt: I'm listed under Developer Tools
📰 Reshare this post

ShadowTraffic was built completely in public in just 90 days, 100% bootstrapped on my own dime.

Thank you *so* much for following along guys!

[Kris Jenkins (@[email protected]) @krisajenkins]

Today I'm launching a new podcast looking at the future of software by talking directly to the devs who are trying to get us there.
We kick off with London's hippest new language designer, Louis Pilfold, the creator of Gleam.

🎧 https://t.co/h4KrEF9DBJ
📺 https://t.co/o7Zfgluqcy

[Neha Narkhede @nehanarkhede]

Meet @OscilarInc, a company @sackulkarni and I founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest challenges facing businesses and consumers today: how to protect online transactions from fraud, risk and theft https://t.co/6deXt46h1B

[Michael Drogalis @MichaelDrogalis]

All of the AI improvements are really exciting, but some of the demos I see out there are overblown.

Basic litmus test: does it suggest that it'll replace critical thinking? If yes, dead on arrival. Save your attention.

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

@mattgillard @john_tipper We really appreciate thoughtful feedback and it’d be great to learn more. @MichaelDrogalis may be able to help.

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

Our first tutorial in Flink :) https://t.co/pVc7Q1bGff

[Kris Jenkins (@[email protected]) @krisajenkins]

I'm declaring the company sticker competition closed. I've just won. This is unbeatable.

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

Adam's debut on the octolog is a great one!

[Confluent @confluentinc]

❓What happened to big data?
@AdamBellemare answers what big data is, its evolution, and how it influenced the shift to modern cloud services and data streaming at scale. Learn more in this #OCTOlog: https://t.co/UfonoVP0LD

[Danica Fine @TheDanicaFine]

Do you work with #data––streaming or otherwise? Read on!

Come share your technical journey! Whether it's for #streamingdata, #realtimeanalytics, unique pipelines or just something fun, we want to hear about it at #Current23.
https://t.co/dX1WvuXNOA

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

BREAKING🚨: Something Just Crashed Into The Moon And Astronomers Captured It
https://t.co/WBl9wsMEdk

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

@xcbsmith @garyolliffe It most certainly does, but assuming you can handle that, events are often a better strategy than moving functionality to synchronous services as it removes runtime complexity. As a simple example, if the shipping service is down, you don't want the orders service to block.

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

The next installment of the octolog is out https://t.co/tpoOWrZps6

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

Cute and useful!

[Confluent @confluentinc]

Introducing the DevX newsletter! 🎉

This is your one-stop shop for:
👉 Community Kafka-related content
👉 Tips for managing @ApacheKafka projects in your terminal
👉Links to fun nerdy content from across the web

Check it out and subscribe here 👇
https://t.co/MPhTd2kppJ

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

Interesting thread on the performance improvements in Confluent Cloud.

[Addison Huddy @addisonhuddy]

1/ Everyone defines “Cloud Native” differently but here’s a performance example from today that gets right to the heart of it. (a thread 🧵)

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

@otavioccc @miguno The guy’s a machine, and an honour to work with.

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

I was looking back at this blog series by @miguno. It remains the best short-form guide to Kafka and data streaming on the internet today. At least in my opinion.
https://t.co/NxQlSWIK9T

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

Expensive tricks though...

[Ben Stopford @benstopford]

Interesting chart of Disney vs. Netflix - old dogs learning new tricks. via https://t.co/YF41lLpvyr