Tag: kafka

All the articles with the tag “kafka”.

• Data This Week #29

  23 Aug, 2026 · 5 min read

  DuckDB v2.0's new PEG-based SQL parser, Cassandra's ACCORD consensus protocol for ACID transactions, migrating multilingual full-text search to PostgreSQL, stream deduplication techniques, the hidden joins inside Snowflake MERGE, and the community debate on enterprise data catalog alternatives.

• Data This Week #20

  21 Jun, 2026 · 5 min read

  Kafka's nine-layer architecture breakdown, self-healing pipeline barriers, ClickHouse full-text search on object storage, Google Cloud Next '26 data infrastructure, watsonx.data semantic layer, Neo4j on Databricks, DuckDB internals, and handling messy Excel ETL.

• Data This Week #15

  17 May, 2026 · 6 min read

  Spark Declarative Pipelines for financial lakehouses, ten AWS Glue & Iceberg fixes, MOR as an architectural shift, DuckDB's Quack protocol, SQL fraud patterns, Kafka checkpoint patterns, and the LLM-for-validation debate.

• Data This Week #14

  10 May, 2026 · 6 min read

  Flink CDC streaming ELT from MySQL to Kafka, the LLM engineer's stack map, Ursa's diskless Kafka fork, Iceberg write mechanics, Instacart's billion-product search, Jikkou 1.0, and the AI knowledge-base debate.

• Data This Week #10

  12 Apr, 2026 · 5 min read

  Data product lifecycle, semantic context layer for LLM agents, Netflix's Druid interval caching, Ursa Kafka storage engine, Iceberg v3 VARIANT type, and Ministack vs LocalStack.

• Data This Week #8

  22 Mar, 2026 · 4 min read

  Pydantic for schema contracts, Databricks Vector Search pitfalls, stateless Kafka broker Tansu, Capital One's GenAI agent, RAG as a DE problem, and testing culture in data teams.

• Data This Week #5

  1 Mar, 2026 · 4 min read

  Spark DAG compilation deep dive, query federation with StarRocks, Pinterest's CDC migration, CyberArk AI with Iceberg, Databricks Zerobus Ingest, and data quality tooling debates.