Tim Berglund
@tlberglund.bsky.social
VP DevRel at Confluent. Relentless hobbyist. Married to @swimflythrive.bsky.social. Father of three, grandfather of four. Believer in Christ. Opinions should be your own.
There are a lot of incredibly talented people on the job market right now. Many of my friends in DevRel, OSPO, program management, and engineering are looking for their next role, some have been searching for months. If you’re hiring, please consider sharing a link to your open roles below. TY ❤️
Wait, so ARM is little-endian? The perfidy! The effrontery!
Shooting some videos about Kafka Connect today, which is deadly serious business.
Any Bay Area photographers around here? I’m looking for a vantage point to capture a time lapse of the fog coming in over the hills. Thinking more Peninsula-ish than in the City.
@amyhermes.bsky.social just followed me. Happy New Year, Amy!
I hope everyone who celebrates is planning to have this awesome of a Christmas.
Don't settle for creedally uninformed mall Santas, people!
"You have the Christmas music taste of a quirked up Christian autumn influencer girl." —My Stepdaughter
"CMake isn't a build system; it's a build system generator." Okay, well, now I have two problems. (Happily cmake.org is more straightforward than this. But reading tutorials that try to tell me I am not fighting with a build system? Tim: 🤬.)
Git submodules are great. They're an elegant twist on Git's model of the world that almost makes C's approach to dependency management (to wit, "What, you need more than a filesystem, princess?") into something workable.
Becoming a Data Streaming Engineer isn't easy. Kafka, Flink, schema governance, event-driven microservices...it's not an easy life. So we make courses and tutorials on developer.confluent.io to help, but we also make videos like this. This...is Confluent Developer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3V...
Confluent Developer but Wes Anderson.
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Americans don't do enough creative Advent calendars. Sure, we'll do 24 chocolates of 24 single-malt whiskeys or whatever, but 24 days of Flink tips? Those always seem to come from Europe. Enter Konstantin Knauf! Today's Flink tip is about EXPLAIN: github.com/knaufk/adven...
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Young woman at the front desk this morning: "Do you know what girl math is? It's a TikTok thing." Me:
I recently looked at some RP2350 PIO code to drive a Hub75 display and I don’t know if I will ever be okay
I think I'm late to the party on this, but second look at Creed, right?
The Current 2025 (Bengaluru) CFP is open: sessionize.com/current-beng... 💥 Open till Dec 19, 2024 💥 Event is Mar 19, 2025 💥 At the Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center Kafka, Flink, data products, analytics, application architecture...it all fits. Share what ya got.
Current Bengaluru 2025: Call for Speakers
Discover the World of Data StreamingEvent OverviewAttention data streaming engineers! The call for proposals for Current Bengaluru 2025: The Data Stre...
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Why was I not informed that Jane Eyre was so awesome? I'm just at the part where she's ten years old and I already want to follow her into battle. (Beautiful writing, too—not at all the indulgent Victorian novel I was expecting.)