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An enthusiastic data engineer looking for data-intensive challenges.
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Feb 15 · 8 min read · Hey everyone, if you've been following along from my last post on streaming JSON into Grafana with the Kafka Datasource plugin, you know how awesome it is to watch real-time data light up your dashboards. Today, we're leveling up to Avro; that compac...
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Dec 19, 2025 · 9 min read · Ever tried visualizing data with Grafana? Whether you’re building a simple dashboard with Prometheus to track resource usage or running complex queries on Loki or Elasticsearch, Grafana is one of the popular go-to tools. Grafana offers open-source an...
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Aug 31, 2025 · 8 min read · The first time I had to secure a Kafka cluster, I felt like I was drowning in acronyms: SASL, SSL, SCRAM, Kerberos… The more I delved into the documentation, the more confused I became. If you’ve felt the same, don’t worry! You’re not alone. Kafka se...
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Apr 5, 2024 · 7 min read · Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash Introduction Ceph & Rados Gateway Ceph is an open-source, distributed storage system designed for scalability and reliability, providing unified solutions for block, file, and object storage under a single platf...
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Jun 8, 2023 · 7 min read · Introduction Nothing is perfect. In terms of databases, you can't expect the best performance for every task and query from your deployed database. However, the vital step as a software developer is to know their strengths and weaknesses and how to d...
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