Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓

Not really a "hot take", more like stating the bleedin' obvious: AI Slop is Killing Online Communities rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-…

Hey, we launched a new blog :) It's even got an RSS feed! 100% technical content, covering Kafka, Flink, and much more. 👉🏻 developer.confluent.io/blog/

Chris Cranford - Oracle Log Mining Simplified in Debezium 3.6 debezium.io/blog/2026/07/0…

Fiore Mario Vitale - Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium debezium.io/blog/2026/07/0…

Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale netflixtechblog.com/data-projects-…

"The LLM grinds everything into the same inherently untrustable confidently-expressed blandness" Dian Fay - What LLMs are Doing to Conference Programs, and How to Use Them Effectively if You're Going to Do It Anyway di.nmfay.com/llms-conferenc…

Armin Ronacher - The Coming Loop lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-…

Armin Ronacher - Communities of Not lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/6/commu…

How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reaction…

Them: Check out this article generated by our tool! It published a 10-part series to Medium! Can you believe it wasn't written by a human! Me: --- Folks, AI slop being spread like an industrial muckspreader all over the internet is why we can't have nice things. This tool is not something to be proud of. It's gross and you should be ashamed. Put your talents to good use elsewhere. Not fucking up the internet for the rest of us who value reading real content written by flesh and blood, not a clanker.

ZhongLi Shen - How Trivago Cut Kafka Consumer Deployment Costs by 83% tech.trivago.com/post/2026-06-1…

Yesterday I published benchmarks on Hardwood (a new Java library for reading Parquet files) on my Threadripper 9980X. Today I ran the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) to see how it compared to the EPYC 7502P that @gunnarmorling used for the official benchmark results. I am pleased to announce that the best time was 140 ms running the thomaswue submission on all 64 cores. Does anyone want to try and beat that? If so, you've been nerdsniped 😄 jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2026/7/1/…

How Lyft Governs and Scales Key Data Definitions eng.lyft.com/metric-semanti…

quite literally, nohello.net :D

Vibe-coded a little widget for my blog, showing the most popular of the Interesting Links each month :) Here are the stats for June's links so far… 🔗 rmoff.net/2026/06/29/int… (h/t to @posthog for an awesome free tier that makes this shit dead easy)

Jack Vanlightly - Raise the ambition threshold jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2026/6/19…

go home reddit, you're drunk

🌄 Interesting Links in the Data & AI World: June 2026 AI arguments, Kafka krunching (sorry), Fantastic Flink, Eye-catching Iceberg…… I've been sat in the sun too long. 🔗 rmoff.net/2026/06/29/int… Links to superb articles and content from folk including @mipsytipsy, @apurva1618, @vanlightly, @dhh, @krisajenkins, @mitsuhiko, @JohnKutay, @gunnarmorling, @jthandy, @tylerhannan, and many more!

Patrick Lam - Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world medium.com/airbnb-enginee…

Today is the day: #Hardwood reaches 1.0 🚀! A from-scratch #Parquet library for the JVM, reading (and soon writing) Apache Parquet fast: multi-threaded at its core, with no mandatory dependencies. Java 21+, Apache 2.0, production-ready. Happy Parquet parsing!

Tom Pang - The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE planetscale.com/blog/the-only-…