VP - Streaming Technologies
Neil Buesing
20 years at Object Partners
27 years of Technology Experience

Neil has more than twenty-five years of Object-Oriented development experience, with twenty years in Java/J2EE application development. He has successfully delivered in the role of an architect and as lead developer.

Over the past 2 years, he has lead up the Real-Time Data Practice at Object Partners. He is a Kafka Architect, Developer, and Advocate presenting at multiple Kafka Summits and Meetups.

Posts written by Neil
Oct 16, 2018
No tables needed, the latest advancements of KSQL
In this presentation, Neil Buesing demonstrates various joining and windowing of Kafka Streams, and showcases the lastest KSQL features. This includes joins without KTables and user-defined functions. Neil is the Director, real-time data for Object […]
Aug 23, 2018
AVRO, kafka, Kafka Streams, spring boot
Capturing missing events with Apache Kafka Streams
Introduction There is a lot going on with Kafka Streams. Understanding it takes time, and it always seems there is more you could learn. In this article, I will utilize Kafka Core and Streams for […]
Jul 10, 2018
docker, unix
docker – adding commands to containers
Introduction I am fully invested living within docker containers. Utilizing containers makes switching between versions of various applications easy. However, leveraging tools within that container can be frustrating; as many standard commands are missing. For […]
Dec 07, 2015
configuration, singleton, spring
Avoiding a common spring annotation configuration mistake
With annotated based configurations, I have seen this common mistake which will cause multiple instances of a singleton being created. When you have two beans and one bean needs the other, it is easy to […]
Jun 05, 2014
Collections, generics, HasMap, Java, Map
Inline initialization of Java Maps
Inline initialization of maps in Java has been a sign of weakness in the Java language. This approach has given me the most concise way to initialize maps, while meeting all of my goals. Goals: […]
Nov 07, 2013
GWT, Java, JUnit, mockito
Testing GWT with GwtMockito
Introduction This article shows how to use Mockito’s doAnswer() and thenAnswer() to test hard to reach code usually written within a GWT application. The technique of calling anonymous inner classes from test code applies to […]
Oct 15, 2013
Grails, groovy, IDE, Java, JEE
What I wish I knew about Grails before my first Grails Project
Introduction A year ago, I did my first official Grails project. Since it was a short term project, I felt I had to start with both feet in; working on the actual business requirements for […]
Apr 04, 2013
AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, GWT, Java
Improving the GWT Async Callback
The core of GWT framework for async communication to the server is through the async callback interface. Its interface is rather simple, but unfortunately, as with a lot GWT development the simplicity is lost with […]
Mar 15, 2012
Javassist, JUnit, mockito, unit testing
How to Mock Final Classes in Unit Tests
Mocking has become a key component to writing effective unit-tests. It is a very useful strategy to write focused tests. Mocking frameworks make it easy to write test, but they have their limitations. Both Mockito […]
Nov 09, 2010
Hibernate, Java, JPA, JUnit
Unit Testing your Persistence Tier code
While writing unit tests is now common, there is still a struggle for writing effective unit tests.  When it comes to an ORM persistence tier framework, a variety of solutions exist.  This article will discuss […]