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Listening to a great conversation about #opensource and what will emerge as the standards that will unify everything - with Will LaForest 🇺🇦 Vittorio Viarengo John Furrier Dave Vellante.

Couldn’t be more proud of my son William. William & Mary the perfect school for him! #wmburgbound

v1.2.0 of the #opensource project Confluent SIGMA has been published! Apply #SIGMA rules in real time against streams of #cyber data in #kafka. A thanks to the feedback and contributions from the community! github.com/confluentinc/c…

Thank you Cinncinati and Skyline Chili for another great visit! Best waiter ever

Just now: Security guard refusing to let me into the stadium for USA-Wales. “You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed.”

Disgusted w/ FIFA World Cup. Pathetic they are preventing "one love" armbands, & won't even let Belgium wear shirts with "love" stitched on the collar. No spine by national federations as well. I will not watch 1 match. This whole world cup is a disgrace. #BoycottQatar2022

Thank you @SenatorSinema (Kyrsten Sinema) for taking the bold step of going independent. The number 1 thing we can do to help American democracy is to break this stupid 2 party system. Wish more politicians would be this brave. #twopartiesisstupid

Companies must compete on their ability to fully maximize the value of their data. It's the economic principle of create destruction playing out in modern times. The question is who will rise from the destruction? #datainnovation #datamesh #kafka link.medium.com/8585sHAOMvb

After the Keynote, we had several fireside chats with our awesome customers. Brandon Brown from SecurityScorecard joined us to share his advice for people just getting started with #datastreaming. 👇 #DataInMotionTour

Redpanda bring out benchmark after benchmark claiming performance superiority over Apache Kafka. I decided to run my own tests to see if any of it was true. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/15…

Gary Neville's combined Man United 99' and Man City 23' team. Not a Manchester City player in sight 😅❌

Q&A—How Wealthsimple Builds API Financial Solutions with Confluent confluent.io/blog/api-finan… via Confluent by Will LaForest 🇺🇦

Meetup Alert! 👉 Join Will LaForest 🇺🇦 and jeff in Minneapolis on Tuesday July 25th as they explore #ApacheKafka tuning for low-latency and building a dynamic rules engine with Kafka Streams. Sign up here ➡️meetup.com/twincities-apa…

Seems Kafka Streams is on 🔥 recently! - KIP-960: IQ for versioned-stores - KIP-955: stream-table FK-join (🤔) - KIP-954: custom stores for DSL default store config - KIP-941: allow `null` for IQ range queries - KIP-892: TX stores - KIP-759: repartition canceling Way to go!

In episode 27 Chad Tindel and stevemayzak talk to Will LaForest 🇺🇦, Field CTO Confluent about his journey in the data space, working previously at MarkLogic, MongoDB, and Red Hat. Will also opines on why people love Kafka still and don't want to get rid of it. youtube.com/watch?v=wp6tOy…

Kafka meets Iceberg in Confluent Cloud

Ready for lunch at Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers! Question is, who will eat the most custard. It’s not the one you think!

One of the most exciting Kafka Streams KIPs ever!

Building Trust in AI Means Building Trust in Data confluent.io/blog/Building-… via Confluent by Will LaForest 🇺🇦

John McCain and I didn’t always agree, but he understood that some values transcended parties. He knew that if we got in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy, our democracy will not work. John McCain had character. That’s what I think