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I’ve submitted a Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) about adding support for Flink to be able to fetch remote jars for applications submitted to a session cluster.

Looking at the server request logs for Machine Learning for Kids is a depressing reminder of what it means to run something on the Internet nowadays.

I’ve added new features to Machine Learning for Kids to give students more options about where they store their projects.

I’ve submitted a Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) about adding support for the Flink Kubernetes Operator to run Flink’s MiniCluster in a single pod for low-throughput jobs that require isolation.

In this post, I want to share a new feature in the generative AI support in Machine Learning for Kids: tool calling.

My commute to work is one of the favourite parts of my day.

In April, I wrote an outline of my career.

In this post, I want to share a new Scratch extension I made today.

A few of us at Current this week were talking about how Current (formerly “Kafka Summit”) has changed over the years, and it got me remembering the bits I’ve contributed.

I gave a talk at Current yesterday about how to embed a tiny language model inside your Flink SQL pipeline.

Metrics can help provide operational insight over Kafka Connect connectors, informing users of how to better configure them.

A few years ago, I ran a workshop about how to create custom Scratch blocks.