12/07/17
Messages in Apache Kafka are appended to (partitions of) a topic. Topics have a partition count, a replication factor and various other configuration values. What could possibly go wrong? Read more
03/20/17
Interactive Queries are a fairly new feature of Apache Kafka Streams that provides programmatic access to the internal state held... Read more
03/13/17
Version 0.10.1 of the streaming platform Apache Kafka introduced a new feature called "Interactive Queries" that makes your streaming application queryable. This article introduces core concepts. Read more
02/15/17
Version 0.10.0 of the popular distributed streaming platform Apache Kafka saw the introduction of Kafka Streams. In its initial release,... Read more
08/19/16
I have been working with the SMACK stack for a while now and it is great fun from a developer’s... Read more
04/21/16
The SMACK stack is all the rage these days. Instead of just talking about it, this post is going to... Read more
12/01/15
This is part 2 of a series that aims to get you started with project Jigsaw. In part 1, we... Read more
11/24/15
Eight years after its inception, Project Jigsaw – the modularization of the Java platform and introduction of a general module... Read more
