Welcome
Hello! My name is Alasdair Brown. I've spent the past 10 years working in the data analytics & engineering space, architecting nation-state cyber defence systems, consulting for global financial institutions, and leading developer relations & experience teams at early stage startups.
Posts
- How to create a Python Processor in Apache NiFi 2
- Conversations with 200+ people at Kafka Summit
- Keeping up with WarpStream
- There is no Data Engineering roadmap
- The (lacking) future of ETL
- How to shop for new data tools
- Using Apache NiFi to send data to Tinybird
- My take on Developer Experience
- Using CloudFlare Workers for Twitter webhooks
- Building the ClickHouse Knowledge Base
- Webhooks & Analytics with Cloudflare Workers & Tinybird
- Mixing it up with Tinybird.co
- Introducing dbt-impala
- The Cloudera Innovation Accelerator & me
- Getting started with NiFi's ScriptedReader
- NiFi Terminology Basics
- Installing NiFi 1.14.0 on Linux (non-production)
- S3 Event Notifications in NiFi
- Importing individual flow definitions in NiFi
- Building a simple REST API in NiFi
- Enriching Records with LookupRecord & REST APIs in NiFi
- Version Control & Deploy flows with NiFi Registry
- NiFi Resources For Learning & Improving
- Kafka with multiple Listeners and SASL
- Connecting to a secure Impala via NiFi
- Moving the data dir of MariaDB on CentOS7