Gordon Murray

Kubernetes was built to solve Google-scale problems. You have 47 users.

@icedcoffee Dark design for dark days 🙂

@gortron What is it with these awful designs today. Dark grey on black is impossible to read!

Great community driven site for fuel prices all over Ireland at the moment fuelstatus-virid.vercel.app found via Reddit

I built Cloudfloe, its a browser-based SQL editor for Apache Iceberg tables. No Trino cluster. No Athena bills. No local setup. Just paste your S3 path, write SQL, get results in seconds. Open source, powered by DuckDB cloudfloe.com

@conoro Could you submerge it in the Bandon river to help with the cooling 😀

Well that's my birthday present sorted. phoronix.com/news/Tiny-Corp…

Revisited my Apache Fluss, Flink and Paimon demo project to add some observability. Prometheus now scrapes Flink and MinIO metrics, Grafana ships with pre-provisioned dashboards, and the README got a full rewrite. All running locally with Docker Compose. Code on Github: github.com/gordonmurray/a… #ApacheFlink #StreamProcessing

Someone opened a good issue on my Apache Flink CDC docker compose project. The README claimed fault tolerance in the set up but nothing was actually configured for it. Fixed it this evening. Checkpointing enabled, restart strategy configured, persistent volumes for checkpoint state. Added a section to the README showing how to test recovery too. Code on Github: github.com/gordonmurray/a…

Check out this blog post by @gortron, who used Apache Iggy as the event spine for a 6-tier streaming lakehouse. Incredibly efficient, barely touching the CPU. gordonmurray.ie/data/2026/03/2… #iggy #rust #apache #asf #streaming #messaging

"From a custom Flink connector to a $600k windfall: Building a 6-tier streaming lakehouse" gordonmurray.ie/data/2026/03/2…

I built a streaming lakehouse with 6 Apache projects and no traditional database. Added a write up with lessons learned: gordonmurray.ie/data/2026/03/2…

I built an Apache Flink source connector for Apache Iggy Apache Iggy is a Rust-native message streaming platform and an interesting high-performance alternative to Kafka. github.com/gordonmurray/f… #ApacheFlink #ApacheIggy

Updated the Lance skill in my data-engineering-skills repo. Standout additions: explain_plan() to debug slow vector searches, parallel inserts for faster ingestion, and fast_search mode to trade freshness for lower latency github.com/gordonmurray/d…

Lance Data Viewer got a lot faster, native pagination means it no longer loads your entire dataset into memory to show a page of rows. Also: smart binary to text decoding, and pre-built Docker images for 5 LanceDB versions (0.3.1 through 0.24.3) github.com/lance-format/l…

Real-time monitoring and management toolkit for OpenSearch cluster operations - track queries, identify slow operations, and cancel problematic tasks interactively github.com/gordonmurray/o…

These small form APC batteries for keeping routers going when the power goes out are pretty excellent. Apple plug for scale 😀

How easy is it to use WarpStream Tableflow? It's "as fast and frictionless as possible." Check out @gortron's guide where streams IMDB data to Kafka and lands it in Iceberg tables: github.com/gordonmurray/w….

My side project, the Lance Data Viewer is now featured on the @LanceDB blog and the repo has moved under the LanceDB org! Huge thanks to the community for the support Post: lancedb.com/blog/lance-dat… Repo: github.com/lancedb/lance-…

Built something small for @flydotio users. Its a cost estimator that reads your fly.toml files (kind of like @infracost ) and shows you the cost flycost.io

@TheLal @flydotio @infracost Thanks, I like it too, I got a flycost.io domain for it too, must make a nice landing page for it

@gortron @flydotio @infracost cool name

I really like using @flydotio for small projects. I like knowing cost up front though, so I wrote a CLI tool called flycost. Sort of like @infracost but for Fly.io. It reads your fly.toml file and gives a monthly cost estimate. github.com/gordonmurray/f…