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How to Help People in Community Forums Like a Boss
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”Whether it is part of your job description or not, helping users in community forums is always a great idea if you work for a company representing a given technology, product, or service. The key idea is to make sure that users don’t struggle. But how do you know when…
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Using Stream Deck with Fedora
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”I have lost count of how many times I had to apply workarounds in my Fedora laptop to use certain devices. For all of you that had to go down the same path, you know the feeling of hopelessness. The reason why I never get tired of helping people with…
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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry using Elastic APM
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”OpenTelemetry is an observability framework that provides the libraries, agents, and other components that you need to capture telemetry from your services so that you can better observe, manage, and debug them. It allows you to capture metrics, distributed traces, resource metadata, and logs (logging support is incubating now) from…
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Excluding Files from a List in Terraform
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”Since the introduction of the for_each feature in Terraform 0.12 it is now possible to code powerful constructs to express the logic of your infrastructure. But sometimes you have to use some creativity to use this feature. I recently had to write a Terraform code that could upload all the…
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Understanding Streaming Data and Analytics with Apache Kafka®
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”Slides of the session “Understanding Streaming Data and Analytics with Kafka” that I delivered on ApacheCon 2020. Have fun ✨
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Troubleshooting 101
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”Part of my job as Developer Advocate is to reach out to developers in social forums like Stackoverflow, Reddit, and Slack communities to check whether I can provide help. While I feel great pleasure in doing this, it is getting harder and harder to help people these days. I have…
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Data Sharing between Java & Go using Kafka and Protobuf
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”One of the most incredible things in Apache Kafka is that record values are shapeless, meaning that developers can write any set of bytes they want, and it works just fine. This can be pretty powerful if they share data among different programming languages. However, this characteristic is sometimes inadequate.…
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What Apache Kafka has in Common with Rocky Balboa?
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🧠 “The best vector database is the one you don’t need.
The second best is the one that solves a real problem.”If you know me well, you must know that I am a big fan of movies. It is not uncommon to see me in situations where if I need to explain something rather complex, I end up using movies as metaphors to understand what I am trying to explain. In…
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