Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, and regular conference speaker. He also likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

Ilkley, UK Joined on Oct 7, 2019 robin@rmoff.net https://rmoff.net

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Robin Moffatt

May 18 '20

Building a Telegram bot with Apache Kafka and ksqlDB

#telegram #bots #apachekafka #ksqldb

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 8 '20

Detecting and analysing SSH attacks with ksqlDB

#ksqldb #apachekafka #networksecurity #neo4j

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 16 '19

Travelling for Work, with Kids at Home

#devrel #career #travel #family

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 11 '19

Staying sane on the road as a Developer Advocate

#devrel

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Dec 8 '21

Kafka Summit London 2022- Call for Papers closes soon

#apachekafka #conference #callforpapers

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Learn how to use Kafkacat – the most versatile Kafka CLI client

You can also do it using the JSON output and filter it with j...

Jan 4 '21

I'm a Developer Educator now! 🥳

Nice write up, I love it when people share this kind of info....

Dec 7 '20

Keep a brag book

This is a great idea. I started doing it too a while back, al...

Sep 29 '20

Liven up your video calls with snap filters

This is fantastic!

Mar 13 '20

SSH keys explained

Good point, thanks.

Dec 21 '19

SSH keys explained

I wasn't aware of ssh-copy-id, I'll check it out - thanks!

Dec 21 '19

Where do I start with writing a web page nowadays?

This is great, thanks!

Dec 13 '19

Where do I start with writing a web page nowadays?

Thank you, that’s really helpful 👍🏻

Dec 12 '19

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Dec 7 '21

Kafka Summit - Office Hours for Abstract Writing

#conference #apachekafka #devrel

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Robin Moffatt

Apr 6 '21

A bash script to deploy ksqlDB queries automagically

#ksqldb #dataengineering

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Mar 30 '21

🤖Building a Telegram bot with Apache Kafka, Go, and ksqlDB

#techtalks #apachekafka #go #ksqldb

1 min read

Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Mar 30 '21

Loading CSV data into Confluent Cloud using the FilePulse connector

#dataengineering #apachekafka #confluentcloud #kafkaconnect

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Mar 30 '21

Connecting to managed ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud with REST and ksqlDB CLI

#apachekafka #ksqldb #confluentcloud

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Mar 30 '21

Kafka Connect JDBC Sink deep-dive: Working with Primary Keys

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #dataintegration

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Robin Moffatt

Mar 30 '21

Quick profiling of data in Apache Kafka using kafkacat and visidata

#dataviz #apachekafka #dataengineering #datascience

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Robin Moffatt

Mar 30 '21

Using Open Sea Map data in Kibana maps

#dataviz #kibana #opendata #maps

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Robin Moffatt

Feb 18 '21

📼 ksqlDB HOWTO - A mini video series 📼

#ksqldb #dataengineering #apachekafka #streamprocessing

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Robin Moffatt

Feb 18 '21

Performing a GROUP BY on data in bash

#bash #shelltricks #dataengineering

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Robin Moffatt

Mar 30 '21

Running as root on Docker images that don't use root

#docker #root #sudo

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 18 '21

Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #confluentcloud #dataengineering

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 4 '21

Kafka Connect - Deep Dive into Single Message Transforms

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #streamprocessing

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 4 '21

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 12: Community Transformations

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 4 '21

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 11: Predicate and Filter

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 4 '21

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 10: ReplaceField

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 4 '21

Scheduling Hugo Builds on GitHub pages with GitHub Actions

#hugo #github #actions #staticsite

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Robin Moffatt

Jan 4 '21

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 9: Cast

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

4 min read

Robin Moffatt

Dec 17 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 8: TimestampConverter

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

6 min read

Robin Moffatt

Dec 16 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 7: TimestampRouter

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 15 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 6: InsertField II

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 14 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 5: MaskField

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 11 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 4: RegExRouter

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 10 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 3: Flatten

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 10 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 2: ValueToKey and ExtractField

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

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Robin Moffatt

Dec 8 '20

🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 1: InsertField (timestamp)

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect #dataengineering #twelvedaysofsmt

3 min read

Robin Moffatt

Dec 7 '20

Life as a Developer Advocate, nine months into a pandemic

#devrel #career #community #life

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Oct 13 '20

GOTO 2020 • Kafka as a Platform: The Ecosystem from the Ground Up

#techtalks #apachekafka

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Robin Moffatt

Oct 9 '20

What makes a good code dissection talk?

#discuss #devrel #speaking #conferencetalks

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Robin Moffatt

Oct 7 '20

Streaming XML messages from IBM MQ into Kafka into MongoDB

#apachekafka #ibmmq #mongodb #dataintegration

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Oct 7 '20

Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 2: Kafka Connect plus Single Message Transform

#apachekafka #xml #kafkaconnect #dataintegration

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Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Oct 7 '20

Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 3: Kafka Connect FilePulse connector

#apachekafka #xml #kafkaconnect #dataintegration

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Robin Moffatt

Oct 7 '20

Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Introduction

#apachekafka #xml #dataintegration #dataengineering

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Robin Moffatt

Oct 7 '20

Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 1: The Dirty Hack

#apachekafka #xml #dataintegration #dataengineering

10 min read

Robin Moffatt

Sep 30 '20

What's your favourite command-line tool that makes you 💯 more productive?

#discuss #linux #productivity

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Robin Moffatt

Sep 25 '20

Some of my favourite public data sets

#opendata #data #dataengineering #datascience

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Robin Moffatt

Sep 24 '20

🎁 A collection of Kafka-related talks 💝

#techtalks #apachekafka #data #learning

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Robin Moffatt

Sep 18 '20

Using the Debezium MS SQL connector with ksqlDB embedded Kafka Connect

#apachekafka #mssql #debezium #ksqldb

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Sep 11 '20

Kafka Connect in 60 seconds

#apachekafka #dataengineering #bigdata #dataintegration

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Robin Moffatt

Sep 4 '20

Is it OK to use the same recording for multiple conference talks?

#devrel

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Robin Moffatt

Aug 20 '20

🤖 Building a Telegram bot with Apache Kafka, Go, and ksqlDB

#showdev #apachekafka #go #techtalks

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Robin Moffatt

Jul 13 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E02 - Adding error handling to the Producer

#go #learning #apachekafka #kafka

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Robin Moffatt

Jul 13 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E01 - My First Kafka Go Producer

#go #learning #apachekafka #kafka

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Robin Moffatt

Jul 13 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E00 - Kafka and Go

#go #learning #apachekafka #kafka

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Robin Moffatt

Jul 3 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E09 - Concurrency (Channels, Goroutines)

#go #learning

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Jul 6 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E10 - Concurrency (Web Crawler)

#go #learning

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Jul 3 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E08 - Images

#go #learning

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Jul 2 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E07 - Readers

#go #learning

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Jul 1 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E05 - Interfaces

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Jul 1 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E06 - Errors

#go #learning

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Jul 1 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E04 - Function Closures

#go #learning

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Jul 1 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E03 - Maps

#go #learning

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Robin Moffatt

Jun 29 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E00

#go #learning

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Jun 29 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E02 - Slices

#go #learning

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Robin Moffatt

Jun 29 '20

Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E01 - Pointers

#go #learning

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Robin Moffatt

Jul 24 '20

How to install connector plugins in Kafka Connect

#apachekafka #kafkaconnect

4 min read

Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Jun 23 '20

Loading CSV data into Kafka - video walkthrough

#apachekafka #tutorial #csv #dataengineering

10 min read

Robin Moffatt

Jun 16 '20

Integrating Oracle and Kafka

#apachekafka #oracle #database #tutorial

1 min read

Robin Moffatt

Jun 23 '20

Viewing Kafka messages bytes as hex

#apachekafka #kafkacat

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