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Kafka Streams – Catching Data in the Act. 3: The Mechanics.

In the previous post we designed the experiment, simulated different operational states and confirmed that the results were as expected – more or less. Here we go over the implementation and a few relevant code snippets before wrapping up this series of posts. As usual the package is available for download… Read more »

Kafka Streams – Catching Data in the Act. 2: Steady and Unsteady States

I was on vacation with my son at Yosemite over the spring break this past weekend. Early part of the trip was washed out due to rain as they closed the park and we were cooped up in the lodge waiting it out. But we had a patio view of… Read more »

Kafka Streams – Catching Data In the Act. 1

I have been playing with Kafka on and off lately. It is an excellent addition to the ecosystem of big-data tools where scale with reliability is imperative. I find it intuitive and conceptually simple (the KISS principle) where the focus is squarely on reliability at scale. Unlike the traditional messaging… Read more »