Here is an overview of my talks, podcasts, scientific papers, external articles, and other published content.

External Articles

• The Future of SQL: Databases Meet Stream Processing, Confluent, Nov 2021
• Digitalisation World Q&A on Kafka, Interview with Digitalisation World, Nov 2020
• Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Elasticity, Fault Tolerance, and other Advanced Concepts, Confluent, Jan 2020
• Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Processing Fundamentals with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, Confluent, Jan 2020
• Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, and Storage Fundamentals, Confluent, Jan 2020
• Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: A Primer, Confluent, Jan 2020
• Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL, InfoQ, Jun 2018
• Big, fast, easy data with KSQL, O’Reilly Media, Feb 2018
• Kafka: Watermarks, Tables, Event Time, and the Dataflow Model, Confluent, May 2017
• Secure Stream Processing with the Streams API in Kafka, Confluent, Jul 2016
• Elastic Scaling in the Streams API in Kafka, Confluent, Jul 2016
• Distributed, Real-time Joins and Aggregations on User Activity Events using Kafka Streams, Confluent, Jun 2016

Podcasts

• Event Streaming Trends and Predictions for 2021 ft. Gwen Shapira, Ben Stopford, and Michael Noll, Confluent’s Streaming Audio Podcast, Jan 2021
• Apache Kafka mit Michael Noll, Programmier.bar Podcast (German), Dec 2020
• 5 Years of Event Streaming and Counting ft. Gwen Shapira, Ben Stopford, and Michael Noll, Confluent’s Streaming Audio Podcast, Aug 2020
• Apache Kafka Fundamentals: The Concept of Streams and Tables ft. Michael Noll, Confluent’s Streaming Audio Podcast, May 2020

Talks & Presentations

• Apache Kafka and the Data Mesh, Kafka Summit Americas, Sep 2021
• Apache Kafka and the Data Mesh, Kafka Summit Europe, May 2021
• Databases Are Only Half-Done, Keynote at W-JAX Germany, Nov 2020
• Tradeoffs in Distributed Systems Design: Is Kafka The Best?, Kafka Summit Austin, Aug 2020
• Keynote: The Database is Only Half-Done, Confluent Streaming Event, Vienna, Austria, Jun 2020
• Now You See Me, Now You Compute: Building event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka, Strata Data Conference, New York, USA, Sep 2019
• Kafka 102: Streams and Tables All the Way Down, Kafka Summit, San Francisco, USA, Oktober 2019
• Stream Processing with Apache Kafka, Kafka Meetup Zurich, Switzerland, Apr 2019
• Apache Kafka in Theory and Practive, guest lecture at Mining Streaming Data course, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam/Berlin, Germany, Apr 2019
• An Introduction to the event streaming platform Apache Kafka, guest lecture at Data Stream Processing and Analytics course at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Mar 2019
• Big, Fast, Easy Data: distributed stream processing for everyone with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka, Berlin Buzzwords, Berlin, Germany, Jun 2018
• Unlocking the world of stream processing with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka (slides), Strata Data Conference Europe, London, UK, May 2018
• Rethinking Stream processing with Apache Kafka, Google DevFest Switzerland, Oct 2017
• Rethinking Stream processing with Apache Kafka, Zurich Apache Kafka Meetup, Switzerland, Sep 2017
• Stream Processing with Apache Kafka, Dublin Apache Kafka Meetup, Ireland, Jul 2017
• Rethinking Stream Processing with Apache Kafka: Applications vs. Clusters, Streams vs. Databases, Berlin Buzzwords, Germany Jun 2017
• Stream Processing with Apache Kafka’s Streams API, Apache Kafka meetup Munich, Germany, Jun 2017
• Rethinking Stream processing with Apache Kafka: Applications vs. Clusters, Streams vs. Databases, Strata Data Conference Europe, London, UK, May 2017
• The Best Thing Since Partitioned Bread: Rethinking Stream Processing with Apache Kafka’s new Streams API, Kafka Summit, New York, May 2017
• Kafka’s Streams API: An Overview, Apache Kafka meetup Munich, Germany, January 2017
• Introducing Kafka Streams, the new stream processing library of Apache Kafka, Berlin Buzzwords, Germany, Jun 2016
• Being Ready for Apache Kafka: Today’s Ecosystem and Future Roadmap, ApacheCon: Big Data, Hungary, Sep 2015
• Practical Pig and Pig Unit, Talk at Swiss Big Data User Group, ETH Zurich, Jul 2012
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies, Talk at Decentralized Information Group, CSAIL, MIT, Boston, USA, Jul 2009
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies, Presentation at the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Boston, USA, Jul 2009
• On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems, Presentation at the Web Science Conference ‘09 (WebSci), Athens, Greece, March 2009
• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries, Presentation at the 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Sydney, Australia, December 2008
• Building a Scalable Collaborative Web Filter with Free and Open Source Software, Presentation at the 4th IEEE International Conference Signal-Image Technology & Internet-based Systems (SITIS), Bali, Indonesia, November 2008
• Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging, Presentation at 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) & 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC), Busan, South Korea, November 2007
• GooDiff: An Online Consumer Service for Monitoring Changes in Legal Documents, BarCamp talk, HACK conference, Luxembourg, Oct 2007
• Authors vs. Readers: A Comparative Study of Document Metadata and Content in the WWW, Presentation at 7th International ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007
• Design and Anatomy of a Social Web Filtering Service, Presentation at CIC conference, Hong Kong, Oct 2006
• An Exploratory Study of Internet Content Rating Systems, Presentation at HACK conference, Luxembourg, Oct 2005

Academic Papers & Publications

• SPEAR: Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking in Collaborative Tagging Systems (ask me for a free copy)
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  International Journal of Computational Intelligence, Wiley-Blackwell, Volume 27, Issue No. 3, 2011 (Impact Factor: 3.31)
• Measuring Expertise in Online Communities
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 26, Issue No. 1, January/February 2011, pp. 26-32, ISSN 1541-1672 (BibTeX)
• Understanding and Leveraging the Social Web for Information Retrieval (Ph.D. Thesis)
  M. G. Noll
  Ph.D. thesis, submitted in the context of a cotutelle de thèse at both the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, and the University of Luxembourg, April 2010
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  M. G. Noll, C.-M. Au Yeung, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  SIGIR ‘09: Proceedings of 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, USA, July 2009, pp. 612-619, ISBN 978-1-60558-483-6 (ACM Link, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 16%, 78/494)
  Read the Technology Review article on this work »
• On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  WebSci ‘09: Proceedings of 1st Web Science Conference, Athens, Greece, March 2009 (BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 16%)
• Writing a Personal Link Recommendation Engine
  M. G. Noll
  Python Magazine, Volume 3(2), February 2009, ISSN 1913-6714
• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  WI ‘08: Proceedings of 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, IEEE CS Press, Sydney, Australia, December 2008, pp. 640-647, ISBN 978-0-7695-3496-1 (IEEE Link, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 19%)
• Building a Scalable Collaborative Web Filter with Free and Open Source Software
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  SITIS ‘08: Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-based Systems, IEEE CS Press, Bali, Indonesia, November 2008, pp. 563-571, ISBN 978-0-7695-3493-0 (IEEE Link, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 33%)
• Exploring Social Annotations for Web Document Classification
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  SAC ‘08: Proceedings of 23rd International ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008, pp. 2315-2320, ISBN 978-1-59593-753-7 (ACM Link, BibTeX)
  (Impact Factor: 0.85)
• Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  ISWC ‘07: Proceedings of 6th International Semantic Web Conference & 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, Springer LNCS 4825, Busan, South Korea, November 2007, pp. 367-380, ISBN 978-3-540-76297-3 (SpringerLink, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 19%, 50/255)
• Authors vs. Readers: A Comparative Study of Document Metadata and Content in the WWW
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  DocEng ‘07: Proceedings of 7th International ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007, pp. 177-186, ISBN 978-1-59593-776-6 (ACM Link, BibTeX)
• Design and Anatomy of a Social Web Filtering Service
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  CIC ‘06: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing, Hong Kong, October 2006, pp. 35-44, ISBN 978-981-281-109-7 (WSP Link, BibTeX)
• Web Page Classification: An Exploratory Study of Internet Content Rating Systems
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  HACK ‘05: Proceedings of HACK conference, Luxembourg, October 2005, ISBN 978-2-9599708-0-1 (BibTeX)

Selected Press Coverage

• New Ranking Algorithm Separates Digital Wheat from Chaff, 2009
  Article on Communications of the ACM (CACM) Online
• A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online, 2009
  Article by Technology Review (US), published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the article features external feedback by the HITS ranking algorithm inventor Prof. Jon Kleinberg and others
• Finding Better Friends: Delicious and SPEAR, 2009
  Article on ReadWriteWeb, one the Top blogs worldwide on Web technology
• How SPEAR Identifies Domain Experts within Delicious (link is broken nowadays), 2009
  Invited article for Yahoo!, published on the Delicious.com blog
• Speer gegen Spam (German), 2009
  Interview with 20 Minutes, the most popular daily newspaper in Switzerland

Research Data Sets

• CABS120k08 (published 2008)
  Large research data set about Web metadata based on a sample of 120,000 web documents with data retrieved from the Open Directory Project, the AOL Search query log corpus AOL500k, Google PageRank, Delicious.com/Yahoo!, and anchor text from incoming hyperlinks
• DMOZ100k06 (published 2007)
  Large research data set about document metadata based on a random sample of 100,000 web documents from the Open Directory combined with data retrieved from Delicious.com/Yahoo!, Google, and ICRA.

Patents

• Detecting co-occurrence patterns in DNS, US9680842B2, 2017

Tutorials

See my separate Tutorials section.