Christina Lin

CORE

Head of Cloud Americas Advocacy at Google

Reading, US

Joined Nov 2011

About

Christina is a Developer Advocate for Google with 20+ years of experience in software development. She has worked as a developer and architect. She is an advocate for making innovative solutions down to earth and making them easily accessible for everyone. Skilled in Open Source technology such as Google Cloud, LangChain, LangGraph, Python, Redpanda, Apache Camel, Kafka and Kubernetes, Ansible.

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How My AI Agents Learned to Talk to Each Other With A2A

In the finale of this series, I use the A2A protocol to let my AI agents communicate and delegate tasks—unlocking true collaboration and orchestration.

July 10, 2025

· 4,938 Views · 2 Likes

Stop Prompt Hacking: How I Connected My AI Agent to Any API With MCP

Learn how to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give AI agents real access to your APIs; no prompt-hacking, just clean, maintainable integration.

July 9, 2025

· 9,885 Views · 3 Likes

Stop Building Monolithic AI Brains, Build a Specialist Team Instead

I created a team of specialist agents to handle different parts of a complex task. It's basically microservices for AI, making our app smarter, easier to update and more.

July 7, 2025

· 3,795 Views · 9 Likes

The Simplest Ingredient for Developing Real-Time Front-End Applications

How to build a real-time frontend application using Redpanda Serverless, Pusher, and Vercel. Managing streaming data, and setting up real-time communication channels.

April 29, 2024

· 4,722 Views · 4 Likes

Data Streaming for AI in the Financial Services Industry (Part 2)

Learn the data streaming strategies to lay a solid foundation for AI, moving from chaos and going into order for data strategies.

March 27, 2024

· 1,166 Views · 1 Like

Data Streaming for AI in the Financial Services Industry (Part 1)

A deep dive into the challenges blocking the Financial Services Industry from successfully adopting AI—and how to solve them.

January 31, 2024

· 3,817 Views · 2 Likes

Effortlessly Streamlining Test-Driven Development and CI Testing for Kafka Developers

Here’s how you can simplify test-driven development and continuous integration with Redpanda and Testcontainers and Quarkus.

May 25, 2023

· 8,045 Views · 7 Likes

Getting Started With Redpanda in Kubernetes

Learn how Redpanda is deployed in K8s with components like the reimplementation of Kafka broker, StatefulSets, nodeport, persistent storage, and observability.

May 1, 2023

· 6,460 Views · 4 Likes

What Is Advertised Kafka Address?

Learn more about the advertised Kafka address.

March 26, 2023

· 7,804 Views · 3 Likes

Tooling Guide for Getting Started With Apache Camel in 2021

This blog is not about how to write a Camel route, it's everything around it. From IDE, to testing framework and even the CI/CD pipeline tools.

May 27, 2021

· 15,786 Views · 7 Likes

Building Hybrid Multi-Cloud Event Mesh With Apache Camel and Kubernetes

A full installation guide for building the event mesh with Apache Camel. We will be using microservice, function, and connector for the connector node in the mesh.

May 1, 2021

· 13,548 Views · 4 Likes

Hybrid Multi-Cloud Event Mesh Architectural Design

Building the event mesh with Camel

April 23, 2021

· 12,263 Views · 7 Likes

Integrating SAP With Serverless Camel

Camel in RHI allows you to connect to any preferred protocol. Developers can configure to connect to the endpoints with their address, credential, or SSL settings.

March 7, 2021

· 7,815 Views · 4 Likes

Camel K in a Nutshell

In this article, learn more about Camel K and take a look at a video that explains how it works.

May 14, 2020

· 22,230 Views · 13 Likes

Achieve Fault Tolerant Messaging with MQ Gateway

Learn how you can achieve fault tolerant messaging using the MQ Gateway feature of JBoss Fuse 6.2 to provide a single IP and port to accept connections from clients.

August 21, 2015

· 3,686 Views · 2 Likes

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When to Choose Redpanda Instead of Apache Kafka

Mar 09, 2023 · Kai Wähner

Here's the blog post our Redpanda CEO Alex Gallego wrote in response to Kai's initial posting of this article in December: https://redpanda.com/blog/kafka-redpanda-future

And my shameless plug, if you want to learn more about Redpanda, watch my super fast, nutshell video :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd9F1NqzVkY

Tooling Guide for Getting Started With Apache Camel in 2021

Jun 03, 2021 · Christina Lin

Hey, thanks. I updated it. Thought the title was clear that this is a tooling guide. But hey, you can always get started by going to the Camel Blog (https://camel.apache.org/blog/) .