Stories by rmoff

Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit

AI Smells on Medium

Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution

I've been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong

How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?

Interactive Kafka Streams Architecture Simulation

How we built the demo for the Current NOLA keynote using Kafka, Flink, and AI

Blog Writing for Developers (Talk)

Flink Watermarks WTF?

Datadog – Evolving our real-time timeseries storage

All-time classic conference talk: Wat

A Garden of Sleep: Tracking the Emotional Distance Between Two Bedtimes

Building agents using streaming SQL queries

Backfilling Postgres Toast Columns in Debezium Data Change Events

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?

Taking Out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Scale

Building a Data Pipeline with DuckDB

The Synchrony Budget

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

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