May the 4th be with you! (Pardon us, we couldn’t resist a Star Wars joke there!) This week, we’ve got a brand new book on data mesh architecture, a new course for .NET developers, and a fun way to look at git internals using Linus Torvalds’ initial commit!

Apache Kafka® Resources:

• Adam Bellemare has a new book out! Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh. This book is a great resource for helping you understand what a Data Mesh is, why it might be an important pattern for you to learn, and practical advice and ideas for how to implement one.
• Watch Israel Ekpo explain the basics of reading Kafka Performace Metrics
• .NET developers, here’s a well-polished new resource! Check out our new course on using Kafka with .NET.
• Get excited for Current 2023 by watching a great one from Current 2022: Grace Zhang tells us about Building A Highly Reliable Enterprise Infrastructure at CitiGroup
• Kafka Summit London is happening in just a few weeks and we can’t contain our excitement! Hope to see you there!

Terminal Tip of the Week:

Today’s tip is a quick one. Instead of using the up arrow to tab through your Linux history to find that one extra-complicated command you ran recently, you can run:

history -5

Then your last -5 (or however many you want) commands will show up on the screen! Here’s an example from my computer:

 5461  sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |\ngrep -i "CPU die temperature"\n
 5462  powermetrics -h
 5463  history -10
 5464  history -5
 5465  history -1

Links From Around the Web:

• Jacob Stopak’s talk on git internals, walking you through git’s original commit
• Grace Jansen explains containerization using… cell biology!
• What place someone is most likely referring to, depending on where they are.

In Other News:

• Kafka Summit London is happening VERY soon, May 16-17! Register at the conference home page.
• Registration for Current 2023 is now open!
• There’s an in-person Kafka meetup in the Twin Cities, May 9!
• Join the Apache Kafka meetup in Rome, May 25th! Presentations will be in Italian.

By the way…

We hope you enjoyed our curated assortment of resources! If you’d like to provide feedback, suggest ideas for content you’d like to see, or want to submit your own resource for consideration, send us an email at info@confluent.io!

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