Timothy J Spann
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website:https://www.datainmotion.dev/
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Conf42 Cloud Native2 editions2022–2025
- Conf42 Python2 editions2023–2024
- Big Data Conference Europe2 editions2022–2023
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on a stage with
- Adarsh Shahonce
- Alba Rivasonce
- Alberto Rodriguez-Natalonce
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who talks about the same things
- Mary Grygleski95 talks
- David Kjerrumgaard12 talks
- Frank Munz8 talks
- Danica Fine24 talks
- Olena Kutsenko31 talks
- Karin Wolok13 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Automating Database Operations with Cortex Code | Conf42 Large Language Models (LLMs) 2026 | 2026-06-18 |
Automates Snowflake database DevOps end to end, generating SQL, DBT projects and pipelines from spreadsheets or Git, enforcing role-limited Snowflake account… | ||
| Ghost-busting with Neo4j Graph Analytics in Snowflake | NODES AI 2026 | 2026-04-15 |
Demo shows Neo4j Graph Analytics running inside Snowflake using a native app plus a PKE meter agent that reads a private share, builds graph views, runs… | ||
| From Air Quality to Aircraft and Automobiles, Data Is Everywhere | NODES 2025 | 2025-11-06 |
Shows a runnable pattern that wires Apache NiFi, Snowflake, Neo4j, Cortex AI and local LLMs like LLAMA into a RAG pipeline for an open lakehouse using Iceberg… | ||
| Smart Cities Unleashed | Conf42 Cloud Native 2025 | 2025-03-06 |
Live demo shows NiFi ingesting Transcom RSS XML converted to JSON, splitting records, adding timestamps, unique IDs and lat/long, and loading into Snowflake… | ||
| It's in the Air Tonight. Sensor Data in RAG | PyData Global 2024 | 2024-12-03 |
Builds a runnable Python pipeline that pulls sensor REST feeds and traffic and weather data from openAQ, enriches and vectorizes readings, and loads them into… | ||
| Building Advanced LLM Applications with Python and Milvus: A Scalable Vector DB Solution | XtremePython 2024 Online Conference | 2024-11-19 |
Shows a working RAG pipeline that uses Milvus as the vector store, LangChain for orchestration, and LLaMA/ollama models for generation, with Milvus… | ||
| Real-Time AI with Open Source | Big Data & RPA Conference Europe 2024 | 2024-11-19 |
Builds a working RAG pipeline: pulls OpenAQ air‑quality REST data, ingests ~1,000 records at a time into a Milvus vector store, creates 384‑dim embeddings, and… | ||
| Codeless Generative AI Pipelines: Prompt Automation | Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2024 | 2024-11-14 |
Shows a concrete pipeline: ingest and chunk real time data, produce vector embeddings, store them in Milvus vector DB, run approximate nearest neighbor… | ||
| Adding Generative AI to Real Time Streaming Pipelines | Build Stuff 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Shows a working real‑time pipeline that ingests Slack messages and images, routes them through Apache NiFi 2.0 Python engine processors, pushes events to… | ||
| Unstructured Data Processing with a Raspberry Pi AI Kit and Python | PyData NYC 2024 | 2024-11-06 |
A portable pipeline captures webcam frames on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a $70 AI hat, runs object detection and pose estimation (ResNet34/pose nodes), vectorizes… | ||
| Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Native Open Source Vector Databases | Conf42 Kube Native 2024 | 2024-09-26 |
Live demos show a chatbot over documentation and notebooks that run locally then scale to Kubernetes using Milvus and the managed Zill as Cloud path, with code… | ||
| Building Apache NiFi 2.0 Python Processors | Conf42 Python 2024 | 2024-02-29 |
NiFi 2.0 adds first-class Python processors that run with requires Python 3.10 and JDK 21 and wrap real libraries: Hugging Face, spaCy, PyTorch, IBM WatsonX… | ||
| Apache NiFi, Kafka, RisingWave, Iceberg + Stock Data | Conf42 Python 2024 | 2024-02-29 |
Live pipeline demonstrates real-time stock ingestion from websockets and APIs into Apache NiFi and Python processors, publishes JSON to Kafka, materializes… | ||
| Building Real-time Travel Alerts | Big Data Conference Europe 2023 | 2023-11-22 |
Builds a real pipeline that ingests global GTFS‑RT and RSS, converts protobuf and CSV to JSON, pushes into Apache NiFi, then to Apache Kafka and streaming SQL… | ||
| Continuous SQL with Kafka and Flink | JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023 | 2023-11-20 |
Live demo shows continuous SQL against Kafka via Flink: topics created, Avro schemas used, data published from an ADS‑B plane feed and ZIP weather files… | ||
| Building Real-time Pipelines with FLaNK: A Case Study with Transit Data | XtremeJ 2023 | 2023-11-07 |
Shows an end-to-end pipeline that ingests GTFS realtime and camera feeds, enriches and joins them by lat/long, and exposes JSON materialized views for… | ||
| Building Modern Data Streaming Apps with Open Source | Open AI + Data Forum @ Open Source Summit North America 2023 | 2023-05-10 |
Shows a working pipeline that ingests REST APIs, transit feeds and ADS‑B aircraft data with Apache NiFi, publishes to Kafka or Apache Pulsar, runs continuous… | ||
| Apache Pulsar Development 101 | Devnexus 2023 | 2023-04-04 |
Overview of practical streaming setup and tradeoffs using Apache Pulsar, Kafka, Flink, Spark, NiFi and Spring with live Docker demos that run on a laptop… | ||
| Cloud Native Apache Pulsar Development 202 with Python | Python Web Conf 2023 | 2023-03-13 |
Shows a working pipeline that uses Python Pulsar functions (packaged with requirements) to run VADER sentiment on live JSON messages from websockets and MQTT… | ||
| Build ML Enhanced Event Streaming Apps with Python Microservices | Conf42 Python 2023 | 2023-03-09 |
Apache Pulsar is shown scaling elastically with decoupled storage and compute, 8 data centers full‑mesh geo replication, and a thriving community (600+… | ||
| Building FinTech Streaming Applications with Pulsar | Open Source in Finance Forum New York 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Apache Pulsar promises one unified streaming/messaging plane that handles petabytes and millions of topics with per-tenant isolation and built-in… | ||
| FLiP Into Pulsar Apps | Big Data Conference Europe 2022 | 2022-11-23 |
Claims that Apache Pulsar unifies messaging and streaming with tiered storage and compute/storage separation, supports mqtt and rabbitmq protocols, and has a… | ||
| Streaming Data Made Easy | OSA Con 2022 | 2022-11-15 |
Claim: Apache Pulsar can run as a single, cloud‑native streaming platform that speaks multiple protocols and streams into analytics stores. Concrete stack… | ||
| Deep Dive into Building Streaming Applications with Apache Pulsar | CloudOpen @ Open Source Summit Europe 2022 | 2022-09-13 |
Claims Apache Pulsar can replace multiple messaging systems by running a standalone Docker cluster or Kubernetes, separating compute and storage and handling… | ||
| The Dream Stream Team for Pulsar and Spring | Spring I/O 2022 | 2022-05-26 |
A Spring Boot app polls a real air-quality REST API and produces JSON messages to Pulsar using Kafka, MQTT, AMQP and native Pulsar clients; a Java Pulsar… | ||
| Fast Data on-Ramp with Apache Pulsar on K8 | Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day Europe 2022 | 2022-05-17 |
Shows an actual NiFi -> Pulsar pipeline that ingests REST and database sources with no code, pushes them into Pulsar topics, runs lightweight Pulsar functions… | ||
| Premiere | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022 | 2022-04-28 |
A rapid lineup of concrete claims and demos: iterative canary releases with feature toggles that cut rollback time and raise SLOs, a live Argo CD demo… | ||
| Cloud Native Apache Pulsar Development 101 with Python | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022 | 2022-04-28 |
Shows how to get a standalone cluster in docker, install the Python client and set JSON/Avro schemas for typed messages, produce and consume with message keys… | ||
| Hello Hydrate! From Stream to ClickHouse with Apache Pulsar and Friends | OSA Con 2021 | 2021-11-02 |
A working pipeline shows Apache Pulsar, Flink and NiFi streaming device images, MQTT and WebSocket events, CDC and logs into ClickHouse with an offload to… | ||
| Hail Hydrate! From Stream to Lake Using Open Source | Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021 | 2021-09-27 |
End-to-end demo that streams IoT, stock REST calls and a NOAA ZIP of XML into a lake using Apache Pulsar, Apache NiFi and Flink; shows MQTT and Kafka protocol… | ||
| Apache NiFi 101: Introduction and Best Practices | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
Introduction to Apache NiFi shows a runnable pipeline: start on laptop or Docker, run on Kubernetes with external storage, and scale from a single node to 100… | ||
| Apache NIFi Deep Dive 300 | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
Run ListHDFS on the cluster primary node and pair it with Fetch for content to avoid duplicate scans; for stronger ordering and exactly-once push records to an… | ||
| Cracking the Nut, Solving Edge AI with Apache Tools and Frameworks | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
A concrete pipeline shows devices and Jetson gateways ingesting sensor and camera data with MiNiFi → NiFi → Pulsar, running on-device or gateway inference with… | ||
| Apache Deep Learning 302 | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
Shows working pipelines that push data from Apache NiFi into Apache Pulsar and Apache Flink while calling models via MXNet Multi-Model Server and DJL; demos… | ||
| Smart Transit: Real-Time Transit Information with FLaNK | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
A NiFi pipeline ingests geoRSS and RSS feeds, unzips or parses XML into JSON, normalizes a tab‑delimited point into latitude/longitude, and adds a unique id… | ||
| Codeless Pipelines With Pulsar and Flink | Data Con LA 2021 | 2021-09-17 |
Live demo shows Apache Pulsar ingesting MQTT and Kafka messages from an IoT device into topics, NiFi processors consuming and transforming JSON without code… | ||
| Hail Hydrate! From Stream to Lake | Conf42 Machine Learning 2021 | 2021-07-29 |
Claims a runnable FLaNK pipeline that uses Apache NiFi, Pulsar, Flink, MiNiFi to ingest IoT and NOAA weather feeds (NOAA ZIPs every ~15 minutes), convert… | ||
| Using the Mm FLaNK Stack for Edge AI (Flink, NiFi, Kafka, Kudu) | Flink Forward Global Virtual 2020 | 2020-10-19 |
A working edge pipeline that reads desk sensors with MiNiFi -> NiFi -> Kafka, validates and writes Avro with a central schema registry, and runs a continuous… | ||
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