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

• 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