Archive for June, 2020

IBM Event Streams v10

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

On Friday, we released the latest version of IBM Event Streams. This means I’ve been doing a variety of demo sessions to show people what we’ve made and how it works.

Here’s a recording of one of them:

In this session, I did a run-through of the new Event Streams Operator on Red Hat OpenShift, with a very quick intro to some of the features:

00m30s – installing the Operator
02m10s – creating custom Kafka clusters in the OpenShift console
05m10s – creating custom Kafka clusters in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
08m00s – running the sample Kafka application
08m50s – creating topics
10m20s – creating credentials for client applications
11m45s – automating deployment of event-streaming infrastructure
12m30s – using schemas with the schema registry
13m10s – sending messages with HTTP POST requests
13m45s – viewing messages in the message browser
14m00s – command line administration
14m30s – running Kafka Connect
15m10s – geo-replication for disaster recovery
15m50s – monitoring Kafka clusters in the Event Streams UI
17m10s – monitoring with custom Grafana dashboards
17m30s – alerting using Prometheus

This is IBM

Saturday, June 20th, 2020

The “This is IBM” videos are a nice intro to some of the things that we work on at Hursley.

They’re not too technical, they’re not “sales-y” for IBM products, they’re interesting stories, and each one is only a few minutes long.

I also like them as I’ve worked with all of these awesome people before, so it’s fun to see them being all serious on camera – even if it makes me a little jealous that they’re so much better at it than me!

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