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Aug 18, 2025

How We Accidentally Became One of UK’s First StarRocks Production Pioneers

We moved home-page analytics off Postgres to StarRocks, cutting p95 from ~20s to ~200 ms with minute-level freshness. Kafka→Flink powers…

Diagram of client → FE (Leader/Follower/Observer) → CN execution/caches → distributed storage.

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Feb 18

AutoMQ: Shared Storage Architecture Deep Dive

Disclaimer: I’ve previously written a broader overview of diskless Kafka proposals and the different ideas behind them, not tied…

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Jan 9

What the Fuss with Fluss: Flink 2.2 Delta Force

Flink 2.2 Delta Join now supports CDC updates, built-in caching, and filter pushdown. Learn how to cut state by 99% with Apache Fluss

What the Fuss with Fluss: Flink 2.2 Delta Force

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Dec 15, 2025

Adding Authentication to Elixir Native Kafka Client: Trust, but Verify

SASL authentication for kafka_ex: PLAIN and SCRAM mechanisms, wire protocol, extensible design. Eight years open, now closed with my PR.

Adding Authentication to Elixir Native Kafka Client: Trust, but Verify

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Nov 26, 2025

StarRocks Incremental MV: A Bridge Over Shifting Ice

StarRocks IVM: how TVR semantics, aggregate combinators and Iceberg snapshots enable row-incremental refresh instead of partition based.

StarRocks Incremental MV: A Bridge Over Shifting Ice

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Nov 12, 2025

Freeze the River’s Flow: Evolution of Streaming Computation Models

Streaming evolved from checkpoints to progress tracking. We perfected coordination, then discovered we didn’t need it all the time

Freeze the River’s Flow: Evolution of Streaming Computation Models

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Oct 27, 2025

Iceberg CDC: Stream a Little Dream of Me

Iceberg v3 gave CDC identity and precision, v4 makes change detection light and metadata compact. Streaming icy edges finally start to…

Iceberg CDC: Stream a Little Dream of Me

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Oct 16, 2025

The Good, The Bad and The AutoMQ

Slack’s KIP-1176, Aiven’s Diskless 2.0, and AutoMQ’s KIP-1183 and how Kafka’s storage frontier shifts from disks to the cloud.

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Sep 29, 2025

Switching me Softly

Zero-downtime PostgreSQL 12→17 upgrade at Fresha: RDS snapshots, logical replication, PgBouncer tricks & Debezium orchestration.

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Sep 22, 2025

What the Fuss with Fluss: Flink Delta Force

Released July 31, 2025, Flink 2.1 dropped a bombshell on the streaming world: DeltaJoin and MultiJoin. These aren’t your typical join…

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Anton Borisov

Anton Borisov

Engineer with 10+ years across data platforms and databases. Now building Fresha’s next-gen data stack with Flink, Spark, Paimon, Iceberg, and StarRocks.

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