Shawn Seymour @devshawn
Distributed Systems Engineer 👨💻 Software Architect 👾 Apache Kafka Evangelist 💛 devshawn.com Alexandria, MN Joined September 2012-
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Done ≠ merged PR. Done = in prod, observable, delivering value. A sharper Definition of Done you can adopt this sprint: deploy, instrument, guardrails, feedback loop. 🚀 shawn.mn/blog/definitio… #devops #sre #softwareengineering #continuousdelivery
New Year’s Eve: the ultimate cron job. 🎉 0 0 1 1 * party.sh Here’s to a bug-free 2025! #HappyNewYear2025
As you wrap up Christmas, ever wonder how Santa delivered all those toys to your kids (and everyone else)? 🎅 Santa’s Workshop was just exposed—read here: shawn.mn/blog/santas-wo… 🎄
🎅🔧 What if Santa’s Workshop ran like a Silicon Valley startup? Discover the hidden tech magic behind the North Pole… 🎄✨ shawn.mn/blog/santas-wo…
me: spends five minutes starting a new blog post... me five minutes later: spends the rest of the day coding a brand new UI for the blog
That feeling when you buy a domain and think everything is possible
It all started with Ops... and now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Kudos to @acloudguru for the infographic 👍
Being a senior engineer is not having the ability to solve hard problems, but rather the ability to eliminate hard problems for yourself and others.
People routinely think you have to adhere to min.isr in order to produce successfully. FALSE. You can set acks=1 and produce to a degraded isr below min.isr with no problem. You risk stability and, reliance but for some situations (people) it's enough.
Interested in learning how to automate Apache Kafka topics and ACLs through code? Learn how to manage them GitOps style in my latest blog post. #kafka #apachekafka #confluent #gitops #automation devshawn.com/blog/automatin…
Automate and manage your Apache Kafka topics & ACLs with GitOps! #kafka #apachekafka github.com/devshawn/kafka…
Quickly starting to realize that the future of full stack development will belong to whoever can build the best abstractions to enable devs to quickly & easily build & manage infrastructure as code. A lot of stuff happening in this space but I think it’s still the early days.
.@apachekafka 2.5 is here! This release makes progress on KIP-500, adds new metrics and security features, and includes exactly once semantics and operational improvements, plus more. Learn about what’s new in the blog: cnfl.io/apache-kafka-2…
Apache Kafka 2.5.0 is ready! Thanks to 108 contributors and to our release manager @MUmrah! As always, check out the release notes for details: downloads.apache.org/kafka/2.5.0/RE…
gitmoji is one of the coolest uses of emoji's in software that I've seen #gitmoji #git gitmoji.carloscuesta.me
Why write tests when you can just fix your code over and over again?
Ever wondered how to keep your Apache Kafka topic names from getting out of control? What naming conventions you should use? Check out my latest blog post! #apachekafka #opensource #kafka devshawn.com/blog/apache-ka…
Ever wondered what Apache Kafka is? Are you sick of your old, traditional message queue? Don't even know what a message queue is? Come get a simple introduction to Apache Kafka. devshawn.com/blog/apache-ka… #kafka #apache #streams #events #eventdriven #architecture #software

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