Travelling for Work, with Kids at Home
Kafka Connect Change Log Level and Write Log to File
Replacing UTF8 non-breaking-space with bash/sed on the Mac
A script I’d batch-run on my Markdown files had inserted a UTF-8 non-breaking-space between Markdown heading indicator and the text, which meant that # My title
actually got rendered as that, instead of an H3 title.
Looking at the file contents, I could see it wasn’t just a space between the #
and the text, but a non-breaking space.
How KSQL handles case
KSQL is generally case-sensitive. Very sensitive, at times ;-)
KSQL REST API cheatsheet
Full reference is here
Confluent Schema Registry REST API cheatsheet
The Schema Registry support a REST API for finding out information about the schemas within it. Here’s a quick cheatsheat with REST calls that I often use.
What to Do When Docker on the Mac Runs Out of Space
I use Docker and Docker Compose a lot. Like, every day. It’s a fantastic way to build repeatable demos and examples, that can be torn down and spun up in a repeatable way. But…what happens when the demo that was working is spun up and then tail spins down in a blaze of flames?
Quick Thoughts on Not Writing a Crap Abstract
Moving from Ghost to Hugo
Pull new version of multiple Docker images
Tiny little snippet this one. Given a list of images:
$ docker images|grep confluent
confluentinc/cp-enterprise-kafka 5.0.0 d0c5528d7f99 3 months ago 600MB
confluentinc/cp-kafka 5.0.0 373a4e31e02e 3 months ago 558MB
confluentinc/cp-zookeeper 5.0.0 3cab14034c43 3 months ago 558MB
confluentinc/cp-ksql-server 5.0.0 691bc3c1991f 4 months ago 493MB
confluentinc/cp-ksql-cli 5.0.0 e521f3e787d6 4 months ago 488MB
…
Now there’s a new version available, and you want to pull down all the latest ones for it:
docker images|grep "^confluentinc"|awk '{print $1}'|xargs -Ifoo docker pull foo:5.1.0
Docker Tips and Tricks with Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Kafka
Streaming data from Oracle into Kafka
Tools I Use: iPad Pro
So how DO you make those cool diagrams?
Get mtr working on the Mac
Kafka Connect CLI tricks
ERROR: Invalid interpolation format for “command” option in service…
Doing some funky Docker Compose stuff, including:
Flatten CDC records in KSQL
The problem - nested messages in Kafka
Data comes into Kafka in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s from CDC tools, and may be nested like this:
Exploring JMX with jmxterm
- Check out the jmxterm repository
- Download jmxterm from https://docs.cyclopsgroup.org/jmxterm