1. What is FerretDB®?  When I first heard about FerretDB, my initial thought was what on earth is a ferret?!    From my childhood I vaguely recalled that ferrets, weasels, and stoats were the “baddies” from “The Wind in the Willows”, but that was about it (see endnote [1]).  Departing the animal kingdom (for the time...

Welcome back to our ongoing series where I document a novice’s journey into the world of machine learning, mine.  In our first article we started at the very basics of machine learning and investigated the various technologies and tutorials that exist out there.  In Volume 2 we narrowed our search to find a machine learning model most...

1. Introduction  (Source: Shutterstock)   Viewing online cat media is linked with procrastination (Emotion regulation, procrastination, and watching cat videos online: Who watches Internet cats, why, and to what effect?)—this blog almost ended here!  Recently I came across 2 use cases of real-time Kafka Machine Learning (ML). Have you ever wondered why TikTok is so...

Introduction  In a previous post, we showed one method for migrating an existing REST-based data ingestion endpoint to Kafka®, by leveraging Karapace Rest Proxy to allow upstream clients to continue using familiar APIs to interface with the service, and by using Kafka® Connect to allow downstream services to receive data from Kafka without requiring complex...