#Architecture is all about trade-offs. A few days ago I found myself thinking about a question: can AI tools alone improve an organisation’s productivity, or does real improvement also require architectural change? I shared my thoughts below #DDD #AI :
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Super excited 🥳 to announce that my talk titled "Debezium, Apache Kafka, and an Acyclic Synchronization Algorithm" has been accepted to #Current26 #Current2026 #ApacheKafka #Kafka #CDC #Debezium #Streaming #DataEngineering
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over a hand-rolled transactional outbox, how it was integrated with an existing legacy MySQL cluster, and how forward sync and back sync between the legacy and new systems were designed. I’ll then dive into our custom-designed acyclic synchronisation algorithm (3/n)
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That uses the legacy system’s optimistic-locking version column as a logical clock (yes, it is possible!!) to break infinite update loops while still allowing controlled updates on both sides. Registrations are open: confluent.swoogo.com/current… (n/n).
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Read our story of how we built a data migration + real time data sync system at Kleinanzeigen using #Debezium #ApacheKafka and a custom synchronization algorithm with loop detection feature.
medium.com/berlin-tech-blog/…
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Today I got a sweet surprise from my employer @eBay_KA - I got an award for my contribution to the company!
I was really touched when my team started changing their zoom background to congratulate me on the occasion!!
Today couldn't get any better!!! #thankyouteam
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Nice to see my Observability article getting included along with other great contents in the latest version of Level Up - a curated newsletter for leaders in tech.
Thanks @patkua !
🔥Hot off the press: Issue #63 of Level Up, a curated newsletter for leaders in tech #cto #vpeng #engmanager #techlead w/content from @AmyCEdmondson @duncan @dxna @JonEdvald @adrianco @say3mbd @MarcJBrooker @SteveSmith_Tech & more! See levelup.patkua.com/archive/2…
ALT Level Up Issue #63 out now
Thank you for helping me learn so many new things about observability!
a lovely writeup of the state of the art in observability, plus a review of honeycomb's play scenarios, and some thoughts on metrics and what's next. thanks @say3mbd!
Wrote a new blog: How to build an Observable System - an introduction to Observability sayemahmed.com/2020/10/how-t…, where I share my recent learnings about observability.
MD Sayem Ahmed retweeted
Clean Code from the Trenches - Writing Executable Specifications with #JUnit 5, Mockito, and AssertJ | #Java Code Geeks - 2020 buff.ly/2WgwzwF
New Blog: Writing Executable Specifications in #Java with #JUnit5 , #Mockito, and #AssertJ: sayemahmed.com/2020/03/writi…
Received a super sweet surprise today from my employer @eBay_KA ! Delivered right to my home.
Happy to be a part of this amazing company!
New blog: A Beginner-friendly Introduction to Kubernetes for Developers: What is Kubernetes? sayemahmed.com/2020/02/a-beg…
I just downloaded The JWT Handbook 📖 by @auth0. Everything you wanted to know about JWTs in one place. Check it out! auth0.com/resources/ebooks/j…
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Watching @SpringSecurity Live Lessons by @starbuxman and @rob_winch on @OReillyMedia. Pretty good summary of the framework. Nicely done!