Posts tagged with kafka

• Kafka cheat sheet

  Nov 17, 2018

  A cheat sheet for Apache Kafka.

• Keeping it simple with microservices communication

  Apr 29, 2017

  The term microservice has been getting a lot of hype and attention. I have to admit that I fail to understand what’s the big deal about it. The best practices about microservices are similar to the ones we should apply to everyday software design. Avoid tight coupling. Single responsibility principle. Keeping things simple. Even those principles go back to the old Unix mantra of doing one job and doing it well (and that’s from 1978). And even that could in turn be labelled just “common sense”.

• Debugging Docker with IntelliJ IDEA

  Mar 26, 2017

  In this post we’ll create a small Java application, run it inside a Docker container, and use IntelliJ IDEA to debug. This is a rather large post, so take your time.

• Kafka with Docker: A Docker introduction

  Mar 25, 2017

  Using Kafka on your local development machine adds another level of complexity. You need to manage two extra services, Apache ZooKeeper and Apache Kafka. In a previous post, I mentioned the possibility of creating a Windows service wrapper for Kafka, so that managing is a bit easier. In this post, we’ll have a look at Docker and how we can use it to solve the same problem in a different way. I am new to Docker, so this is a very basic post, more like an introduction to Docker.

• Kafka Windows Service Wrapper

  Mar 4, 2017

  TL;DR: I created a wrapper for Apache Kafka so that it can be installed as a Windows Service. In this post I also describe a bit what Kafka is.