Dominique Ronde

Dominique Ronde is a Staff Solution Engineer, PhD candidate in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and author focused on AI, data streaming, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and real-time system architecture. With more than 20 years of experience in IT, data platforms, and digital transformation, he helps organizations design reliable, scalable, and practical data systems. On Big Data Pilot, he writes about AI, machine learning, event streaming, software engineering, and the realities of building technology that actually works in production.

Saga Pattern in Apache Flink: When It Works, When It Breaks, and What to Do Instead

Someone came up to me at a conference and asked how they should implement the Saga pattern in Apache Flink and I think this is worth a written blogpost as well. Their team came from a classic microservices architecture, where Sagas had become the standard answer whenever one business transaction crossed several services. Now they

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Building an AI Development Agent: From Jira Ticket to GitLab Merge Request

A real-world experiment with Claude Code, Jira, GitLab and OpenTelemetry to measure agent costs, reduce token waste and find out whether AI agents are actually cheaper than human developers. Why do we celebrate the empty gas tank? My tax advisor asked me a fairly reasonable question: “Could I use agents to automate some of the

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90 Days Around the World: AI, Business Travel, and What Companies Still Get Wrong

The original plan was never to do a world tour. It just slowly escalated from „one conference and a few customer meetings“ into Dubai, Portugal, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Hawaii, Los Angeles, London, Switzerland, and back to Dubai with enough flight segments to emotionally qualify as cabin crew. Looking back, the most interesting part was not

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AI, Power Consumption, and the Strange Things We Suddenly Consider Worth the Electricity

There is a strange contradiction in modern society that becomes harder to ignore the deeper artificial intelligence moves into everyday life. And no worries, this won’t become a ethical lecture about lifestyle. We became incredibly disciplined about visible consumption. People replace old lightbulbs with LEDs because saving a few watts matters. The Food gets sourced

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