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Can Giants interim coach Mike Kafka make it work in New York? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46953005/can-giants-interim-head-coach-mike-kafka-make-work-new-york

With Apache NiFi, a multimodal data pipelining tool, you can assemble existing and/or custom Java & Python processors into a variety of flows. At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Lester Martin discussed how a rich data pipeline can be constructed from Kafka, stored using the Apache Iceberg table format and consumed from Trino.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/2yH9PfiXb9Y?si=Xhi_xDMzLQOps8my
Berlin Buzzwords returns on 7-9 June 2026! Get 36% off with our Trust Us Ticket: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

Bill Belichick quashes New York Giants job speculation, restating UNC commitment https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6808930/2025/11/14/bill-belichick-denies-new-york-giants-job-speculation/

We added some extra capacity to one of our Kafka clusters at work and switched on a rebalancing job to move all the data around.
Don't worry if this means nothing to you, it's basically a fancy-arsed version of the good old Windows defrag.
Anyway, it did exactly what we wanted to do but looking at the resulting graphs of how the data moved around I think we've ended up creating the worst tube map ever.

The value of WBD's cable networks including CNN is a key number for Netflix and Paramount bidders; Ellison says they're worth ~$2.5B, while analysts say ~$10B (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/warner-bros-…

Paramount says WBD's cable networks are worth $2.5 billion. Analysts say $10 billion. Who's right?
Paramount's David Ellison wants to buy all of Warner, including its cable networks. How much they're worth is a big part of his fight vs. Netflix.

#Kafka Fundamentals: Getting Started with Distributed Messaging
https://substack.com/inbox/post/173521922

I just needed to complain about datadog. Trying to use one of its canned dashboards for Kafka that doesn't have sufficient filtering to break things down by cluster .... So I cloned it and added some filter at the top, but none of the widgets inherit the filters.
Struggling to see how this was ever useful for anybody

Next-Generation Event-Driven Architectures: Performance, Scalability, and Intelligent Orchestration Across Messaging Frameworks
Jahidul Arafat, Fariha Tasmin, Sanjaya Poudel, Ahsan Habib Tareq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04404

Next-Generation Event-Driven Architectures: Performance, Scalability, and Intelligent Orchestration Across Messaging Frameworks
Modern distributed systems demand low-latency, fault-tolerant event processing that exceeds traditional messaging architecture limits. While frameworks including Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, NATS JetStream, and serverless event buses have matured significantly, no unified comparative study evaluates them holistically under standardized conditions. This paper presents the first comprehensive benchmarking framework evaluating 12 messaging systems across three representative workloads: e…

Giants interim coach Mike Kafka shows he isn't giving up without a fight https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6813159/2025/11/16/giants-packers-mike-kafka-interim-coach/

Fox News ran a story based on AI-generated videos about SNAP beneficiaries before correcting the story; Newsmax aired a similar segment with AI-generated clips (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-ai-fake-snap-meta-yann-lecun-new…

AI fakes are duping Fox News, Newsmax, and ... maybe Meta's AI expert?
We've known for years that AI would be able to make fake video that could dupe us. Now it looks like we're here.

Suite de l’aventure avec le contrôle des habitants de Lausanne: Après 19 jours, je reçois un mail avec une “convocation” disant que je dois payer 35 francs d’avance. Le document de cette convocation ne mentionne même pas la demande, n’a pas de bulletin de versement, il y a seulement un QR code et un délais (21 janvier 2026!) qui - j’espère - me dirigera vers d’autres explications. Kafka. Il faut que je trouve maintenant un autre appareil pour photographier le QR-code.

Abdul Carter responds to benching, Giants teammates advise 'be on your job' after loss to Packers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/abdul-carter-benched-giants-mike-kafka/…

Enhancing CTAO Monitoring and Alarm Subsystems in Distributed Environments Using ServiMon
Kevin Munari, Alessandro Costa, Federico Incardona, Emilio Mastriani, Sebastiano Spinello, Stefano Germani, Pietro Bruno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16366

Enhancing CTAO Monitoring and Alarm Subsystems in Distributed Environments Using ServiMon
ServiMon is a scalable data collection and auditing pipeline designed for service-oriented, cost-efficient quality control in distributed environments, including the CTAO monitoring, logging, and alarm subsystems. Developed within a Docker-based architecture, it leverages cloud-native technologies and distributed computing principles to enhance system observability and reliability. At its core, ServiMon integrates key technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and Cassandra. Prometheus se…

WBD's "unsolicited interest" statement indicates that it is willing to sell its valuable studio and streaming business instead of splitting itself into two (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/wbd-sale-mul…

The possible sale of Warner Bros. just got a lot more interesting
Warner Bros. Discovery rejected Paramount's bid — now it wants more bidders for some or all of the company.

Giants QB Jaxson Dart (concussion) ruled out vs. Lions; Jameis Winston to make second straight start https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-concussion-ruled-out-lions-jameis-winston-start

Giants QB Jaxson Dart returns to practice, on track to play in Week 12 game vs. Lions https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-returns-to-practice-on-track-to-play-week-12-lions