Blog — April 2018

Technical Technical — Kafka

“Kongo” Part 3 - Apache Kafka: Kafkafying Kongo - Serialization, One or Many topics, Event Order Matters

Thursday 26th April 2018 by Paul Brebner

Kafkafying – the transformation of a primitive monolithic program into a sophisticated scalable low-latency distributed streaming application (c.f. “An epidemic of a zombifying virus ravaged the country”) Steps for Kafkafying Kongo In the...

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Contributing to Open Source Software

Thursday 5th April 2018 by Instaclustr

Open source software is tricky business. One might think a volunteer project that gives you free software is the greatest thing ever, however making such a project work is complex. Creating open source...

Technical Technical — Kafka

"Kongo" Part 2: Exploring Apache Kafka application architecture: Event Types and Loose Coupling

Thursday 5th April 2018 by Paul Brebner

This is the second post in our series exploring designing and developing and example IOT application with Apache Kafka to illustrate typical design and implementation considerations and patterns. In the previous blog, we...