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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Sep 14

@sharatchander.bsky.social

Saw the best name for WiFi SID and thought of you

Depeche Modem

Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Jun 3

@bengamble7.bsky.social - Watching @intellijidea.com's "Valhalla Nullness Emotion" and the talk about Collections of value classes (needing workaround to runtime erasure). Gets me to our conversations - what would it be like if Java 5 (1.5) accepted a VM change and didn't do generic erasures?

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Jun 3

Enjoying @intellijidea.com's Conference 2025 (not able to watch most of it live, but catching a session right now).

Super excited that Wrapper Classes will be Value Classes. Every time I see/hear about this. I've never liked auto-boxing; this is a major improvement.

Thanks, Rémi Forax.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · May 20

@mjsax.bsky.social and Andrew Schofield of @confluent.io.

"One Client to Rule Them All"

#Current2025

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Apr 22

Looking forward to @sharatchander.bsky.social 's Keynote. Then, looking forward to hearing @gamussa.dev talking about Kafka and the Schema Registry, and then more!

Java, Kafka, @kafkastreams.bsky.social, & @intellijidea.com - that's my tech stack!

lp.jetbrains.com/intellij-ide...

@jetbrains.com

IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2025 | June 3-4, 2025

We invite you to join us for IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2025 and gain insights from industry leaders and experts.

lp.jetbrains.com

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Apr 8

Apache Kafka Meetup here at Target Plaza Commons.

Thanks @confluent.io and Target.

@sandonjacobs.bsky.social - great talk on queues (didn’t mean to use that word) for Kafka

Now Target presenting 👏

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Apr 3

I think meeup.com is a great service & I have always felt their pricing model being based on organizations vs those attending made sense. If they now want to limit attendance viewership to an attendee paid tier model; I'm ok with that too. But the constant nagware/pop-up? annoying and off-putting.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Apache Kafka Community here in the Twin Cities is very active; attendance is tracking high during the first week of announcing this event. If you are involved with real-time event processing please check out this meetup and I hope to see you there.

www.meetup.com/twincities-a...

IN PERSON: Apache Kafka® Meetup, Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup

Hello Streamers! Please join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup hosted by Target on Tuesday evening, April 8th from 5:00pm! 📍**Venue:** Target Plaza Commons 1001 Nicollet Ma

www.meetup.com

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Open Source North @opensourcenorth.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thank you to Neil Buesing (@nbuesing.bsky.social) for speaking at #osn2025!

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Mar 9

I’ve already listened to Lady Gaga’s new album on Spotify (yesterday) in full. Today I get an email telling me about the new album. I would be more impressed with real-time services if they could use real-time data to NOT send me something I already obviously am aware of.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Mar 5

@intellijidea.com's IDE has a great Apache Kafka plugin.

This is a @kafkastreams.bsky.social's session window changelog topic -- maybe I can figure out how to get support natively for Kafka Stream windowing keys.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Feb 17

There is just 6 hours left to submit to @confluent.bsky.social Current London 2025, the Data Streaming (formerly Kafka Summit) conference.

Now, we have literally seen submissions with < 1 minute to spare -- don't be that person.

sessionize.com/current-lond...

Current London 2025: Call for Speakers

Discover the World of Data StreamingEvent OverviewAttention data streaming engineers! The call for proposals for Current London 2025: The Data Streami...

sessionize.com

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Jan 22

I recently discovered chrome-cli (github.com/prasmussen/c...). By also leveraging `fzf` I can now quickly close tabs by name/url.

chrome-cli list tablinks | sort | fzf -m | awk -F '[][]' '{print $2}' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | xargs -I {} chrome-cli close -t {}

revolutionary!

Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 26

On the day I migrated a Kafka cluster to KRaft, my inbox on my work email is... 500 -- is that a sign 🤣. A sign I need to deal with junk email vs. leaving it in my inbox.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 23

Agreed. It wouldn’t be perfect, but I feel it would be better. Offsides rule, as far as I know, was designed to prevent camping near the goal and obvious things like that. So this change is still an objective way to honor that and I hope prevents more overturned calls (again my hope).

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 23

And any part of that person - I want it to Hane to be all of the person.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 23

Yes. I keep wanting it, so my apologies for you hearing it from me multiple times 😂

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 23

Football offsides should be if any part of you is behind the defender you are not offsides.

Remains objective and more true to the spirit of the rule.

Watching my two favorite Premier league teams facing each other: ARS/NFO.

@nts.bsky.social - your team planning it 2 hours, watching?

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 22

@opensourcenorth.bsky.social

Full house at the OSN appreciation and happy hour event this evening.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 14

I took a kafka-client application and cut memory consumption to 40% with graalvm.

I also built a cli tool for aid in zsh autocomplete of Kafka commands - nice and fast startup time.

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 14

My son and I play this every day and share results. I really enjoy the weekly challenges that come out on Monday.

#Travle

travle.earth

travle

Travle: A daily game, get between countries in as few guesses as possible!

travle.earth

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 14

I should have said the 'application' plugin.

Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 14

It makes my application testing/development easier in ensuring the interrupt signal makes it to my java application is very important.

github.com/kineticedge/...

kafka-streams-dashboards/build.gradle.kts at main · kineticedge/kafka-streams-dashboards

showcases Grafana dashboards for Kafka Stream applications leveraging client JMX metrics. - kineticedge/kafka-streams-dashboards

github.com

Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 14

I am a big fan of gradle and the gradle assembly plugin, but when running `gradle run` Control-C is not propagated to the application. When it comes to kafka-streams, this leads to an unclean shutdown.

I have my own `run.sh` and have a custom task that generates a `.classpath.sh` on assembly.

introvert.com

run.sh

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Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social · Nov 13

Katniss says “hi” and says the weather is so much better here at BlueSly.

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