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
By now most companies that have pointed their ship towards some sort of service architecture (in buzz words, microservices) have also discovered an API explorer to ease the pains of developers that are trying to .. READ MORE
GraphQL is on the rise as an alternative approach to traditional REST APIs. Created by Facebook, GraphQL provides a better way for the consumer of an API to ask for what they need and get .. READ MORE
Spending time and effort to design and build user-friendly APIs is no longer a “nice to have”. APIs should be embraced as a product in their own right. An API should empower the user, internal .. READ MORE