06/24/18
The Kotlin language gets more and more attention. One area it excels in is in writing custom DSLs. In this post I show how to write your own DSL for example to work with Apache Kafka. Read more
03/02/18
You don’t need to write any code for pushing data into Kafka, instead just choose your connector and start the job with your necessary configurations. And it’s absolutely Open Source! Read more
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
03/27/17
Spark Streaming, Flink, Storm, Kafka Streams, ... The possibilities for stream processing are manifold. Time to bring some light into the dark. 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
01/19/17
This is going to be a sum-up of the experience gathered on various projects done with the SMACK stack. For... Read more
10/11/16
Apache Kafka comes with a lot of security features out of the box (at least since version 0.9). But one... Read more
