Weekendlinks 2021-25

Back when I worked for Transfer Solutions we had an internal weekly newsletter that appeared every end of the week. At the end of it there was a small section by me called “weekendlinks”: 3 or 4 things I found on the Internet that were interesting, funny or thoughtprovoking for people to look at on the Friday afternoon. When I left Transfer Solutions I’ve been on the lookout for a place for my weekendlinks, but either the company where I worked didn’t have a similar newsletter, the culture was too serious or “not a good fit” otherwise.

But since this is my blog and I might just as well do as I please here, I decided to revive my weekendlinks here. It will be my Five Bullet Friday. So here goes:

 

An illustrated children’s book to Apache Kafka

Teaching complex matters to people is an art. Explaining modern software concepts to children is even more a challenge. But there are people who try it. There already was a Children’s Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes. Well, now there’s one for Apache Kafka too. Expect some tortured analogies though.

https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/

Maybe I should write a children’s book to data engineering one day?

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Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day one

Last Friday I almost felt I had to explain a colleague that I don’t always win raffles and lotteries. Because yep, I won another ticket. Again via the Roaring Elephant podcast. It’s pretty worthwhile listening to them, is all I’m saying.

This was a ticket for CodeMotion Amsterdam 2018. CodeMotion is a conference for developers with topics like the blockchain, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, software architectures, but also front-end development, game development and AR/VR.

Amsterdam from the ferry to the north of the city.

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