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Michael Drogalis

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Michael Drogalis

@MichaelDrogalis

🔥 Founder @ShadowTrafficIO 📰 Writes about bootstrapping michaeldrogalis.substack.com

Seattle, Washington

Joined May 2011

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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Nov 14, 2023
🔥 It's finally here! I'm excited to announce that @ShadowTrafficIO is now available. Head to the home page to get started for free. For my entire career, I've been baffled by how long it takes to build demos, load tests, and proof-of-concept projects. Everyone's built little
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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
May 9, 2021
Put a UUID on it. Put a timestamp on it. Put a version on it. You won’t regret it.
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Sep 5, 2023
Put a UUID on it. Put a timestamp on it. Put a version on it. You won’t regret it.
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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Jul 22, 2019
I've been working with @apachekafka for 7+ years. I find myself doing the same set of activities every time. Here's a set of Kafka productivity hacks for doing a few things way faster than you're probably doing them now. @confluentinc 🔥
apache-kafka-productivity-hacks.md
From gist.github.com
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
May 3, 2024
Things I wish I knew as a 22 year-old engineer: 1. Software engineering is mainly about people, not code. Technical expertise will only take you so far. 2. There's a time to hack together a house of cards and a time to build a masterpiece. Learn the difference. 3. Prioritize
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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Nov 21, 2016
My respect for a person goes up by a 1000-fold when I hear things like: - I was wrong, you're right. - I'm sorry. - I don't know the answer.
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Apr 23, 2024
🔥 I can't believe it: 8 months in, and I've just closed my 3rd enterprise customer. Will I make it long term? Who knows. But so far, my revenue per employee is higher than many seed-funded startups, and all of my existing customers have expanded 3-4x their initial use cases.
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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Mar 14, 2021
Thinking about writing something on what’s changed since @martinkl’s turning the database inside out talk (spoiler: a lot. The practical side is way different now.) Anyone interested?
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Oct 4, 2023
Since leaving Confluent, I've been asked by so many people how their company can win at stream processing. Honestly, I don't know, but one thing's been apparent: latency isn't the killer feature. Whoever wins is going to figure out what it really is.
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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Aug 2, 2018
I’m incredibly excited to share that Distributed Masonry will be joining @confluentinc ! It’s been amazing journey, and I couldn’t ask for a better exit. 1/
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Mar 10, 2020
I’ve scratched an itch I’ve had for ages. Introducing Voluble, an intelligent data generator for @apachekafka. Voluble generates streams of realistic events with support for cross-topic relationships, tombstoning, configurable rates, and more.
GitHub - MichaelDrogalis/voluble: Intelligent data generator for Apache Kafka. Generates streams of...
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Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Aug 23, 2020
Many teams have created best practices for how they should name & describe their @apachekafka events. When they do this, a kind of murky categorization emerges, but no one can quite make out where the boundaries are. As it turns out, linguists beat us to it a long time ago. 1/
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Jun 1, 2021
How it started / how it's going:
Michael Drogalis
@MichaelDrogalis
Apr 14, 2020
Every now and again I see criticism for using @apachekafka for small/low volume projects. If you host it yourself, sure, there’s an ops burden. But I think this misses the point: commit logs are a *hugely* useful primitive for any volume. At least as useful as database tables.