Kafka Deep Dive into Joining in Kafka Streams Joining is one of the most useful capabilities we have when working with Kafka Streams, but it takes some effort to wrap your head around.
Kafka Sensible Schema Evolution Schema evolution is a critical part of building a system with Kafka, but it's often overlooked. Lately I've been thinking a lot about best practices to facilitate our development with Kafka—this article is the result of all of that.
Kafka Landing a message As I've been working more with Kafka, I've realized that a large amount of the pain is related to the deserialization of data. So increasing our understanding of this piece of Kafka programming is a good use of time.
Kafka The Role of Change Data Capture and Kafka Connect in Event Driven Architectures In normal architectures, data is trapped in the database. It is only accessible through API's. Normally that's best, because we only want people accessing data in the way we define. Except sometimes it's not.
Kafka Kafka Hello World Apache Kafka is one of the most groundbreaking technologies we software developers get to work with these days. It’s used for streaming applications, as well as for piping data all throughout a system.
Kafka Exactly Once In most messaging systems (RabbitMQ, for example) they deal in at-least once delivery. We (should) handle with this by making our systems process messages idempotently, or by de-duplicating.
