As your team enters the new year fresh off of a “holiday reboot”, broaden your next retrospective to look at the previous year as a whole. What went well? Where did things fall short? What .. READ MORE
Unless you have been granted the golden ticket to greenfield development, there isn’t a hard and fast approach to migrating to an Event-Driven System. However, there are designs, technologies, best practices and approaches that will .. READ MORE
The Kafka Streams API has been around since Apache Kafka v0.10 and as the adoption of Kafka booms, so does Kafka Streams. The Streams library enables developers to create distributed processing applications while avoiding most .. READ MORE
Fending off buzzwords can feel like a full-time job, so having a reliable approach to assessing technologies is a critical piece of an engineer’s toolkit. With the rise of Kafka, more and more companies are .. READ MORE
When building out applications around a Kafka cluster one of the most critical considerations is how failures are handled. Kafka does a nice job of decoupling systems but there are still many opportunities for things .. READ MORE
Spring Kafka provides a variety of testing utilities to make writing integration tests easier. Most notably, the @EmbeddedKafka annotation spins up an embedded broker (and zookeeper) available for tests. The address of the broker is set to .. READ MORE
Kafka Connect is the hub that connects your Kafka cluster to any other system. The framework aims to make it easy to pull data into Kafka as well as copy data out of Kafka. As .. READ MORE
Here’s a common scenario, your engineering team decides to use Kafka and they start writing producers, consumers, connectors, streams, you name it. Before long, 6 engineers have manually created 20+ topics in the lower environment .. READ MORE
Kafka is an exciting space and what I have been finding most exciting is the data streaming aspect of it. Kafka Connectors are the bookends to a powerful streaming engine that quickly transform and analyze .. READ MORE
When I wrote “Implement a GraphQL Endpoint in a Groovy App” this past July, I had yet to actually use GraphQL anywhere other than a pet project. Well, that has changed and so have my .. READ MORE