Welcome
Hello! My name is Alasdair Brown. I’m currently building a real time data platform at Tinybird.
I have spent the past 10 years as a consultant in Big Data, with a focus on Cyber Security and Real Time Analytics. I'm a nerd for data architecture & strategy, and have helped clients ranging from seed-stage startups through to nation-states gain real value from fast data.
Startup advisory: I am working with early stage dev & data tool startups (<=SeriesA) on GTM, developer marketing, and product strategy. Contact me on LinkedIn.
Projects
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: Part 1, Twitter CRC
- My first docs site, from scratch: the ClickHouse Knowledge Base
- Serverless 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 by processing Key Value Pairs - Part 1
- 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
- NiFi in Production - 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 with TLS and Kerberos (and Hive2)
- Moving the data dir of MariaDB on CentOS7