Welcome

Hello! My name is Alasdair Brown & I’m currently leading Developer Advocacy 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.

Projects

Posts

• 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