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Michael Drogalis
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🔥 Founder @ShadowTrafficIO 📰 Writes about bootstrapping michaeldrogalis.substack.com
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Nov 14, 2023
    🔥 It's finally here! I'm excited to announce that @ShadowTrafficIO is now available. Head to the home page to get started for free. For my entire career, I've been baffled by how long it takes to build demos, load tests, and proof-of-concept projects. Everyone's built little
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    Michael Drogalis
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    May 9, 2021
    Put a UUID on it. Put a timestamp on it. Put a version on it. You won’t regret it.
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Sep 5, 2023
    Put a UUID on it. Put a timestamp on it. Put a version on it. You won’t regret it.
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Jul 22, 2019
    I've been working with @apachekafka for 7+ years. I find myself doing the same set of activities every time. Here's a set of Kafka productivity hacks for doing a few things way faster than you're probably doing them now. @confluentinc 🔥
    apache-kafka-productivity-hacks.md
    From gist.github.com
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    Michael Drogalis
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    May 3, 2024
    Things I wish I knew as a 22 year-old engineer: 1. Software engineering is mainly about people, not code. Technical expertise will only take you so far. 2. There's a time to hack together a house of cards and a time to build a masterpiece. Learn the difference. 3. Prioritize
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Nov 21, 2016
    My respect for a person goes up by a 1000-fold when I hear things like: - I was wrong, you're right. - I'm sorry. - I don't know the answer.
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Apr 23, 2024
    🔥 I can't believe it: 8 months in, and I've just closed my 3rd enterprise customer. Will I make it long term? Who knows. But so far, my revenue per employee is higher than many seed-funded startups, and all of my existing customers have expanded 3-4x their initial use cases.
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Mar 14, 2021
    Thinking about writing something on what’s changed since @martinkl’s turning the database inside out talk (spoiler: a lot. The practical side is way different now.) Anyone interested?
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Oct 4, 2023
    Since leaving Confluent, I've been asked by so many people how their company can win at stream processing. Honestly, I don't know, but one thing's been apparent: latency isn't the killer feature. Whoever wins is going to figure out what it really is.
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Aug 2, 2018
    I’m incredibly excited to share that Distributed Masonry will be joining @confluentinc ! It’s been amazing journey, and I couldn’t ask for a better exit. 1/
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Mar 10, 2020
    I’ve scratched an itch I’ve had for ages. Introducing Voluble, an intelligent data generator for @apachekafka. Voluble generates streams of realistic events with support for cross-topic relationships, tombstoning, configurable rates, and more.
    github.com
    GitHub - MichaelDrogalis/voluble: Intelligent data generator for Apache Kafka. Generates streams of...
    Intelligent data generator for Apache Kafka. Generates streams of realistic data with support for cross-topic relationships, tombstoning, configurable rates, and more. - MichaelDrogalis/voluble
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Aug 23, 2020
    Many teams have created best practices for how they should name & describe their @apachekafka events. When they do this, a kind of murky categorization emerges, but no one can quite make out where the boundaries are. As it turns out, linguists beat us to it a long time ago. 1/
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Jun 1, 2021
    How it started / how it's going:
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    Michael Drogalis
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    Apr 14, 2020
    Every now and again I see criticism for using @apachekafka for small/low volume projects. If you host it yourself, sure, there’s an ops burden. But I think this misses the point: commit logs are a *hugely* useful primitive for any volume. At least as useful as database tables.