I wanted to write a short and sweet blog post on writing a Kafka producer and consumer in Kotlin before delving deeper into the topic of…

There are two popular Docker images for Kafka that I have come across: Bitmami/kafka (Github) wurstmeister/kafka (Github) I chose these…

As learnt through many years of writing Java code, we have come to the collective decision to use getters and setters instead of directly…

I wanted to write down my thoughts about “experience” as it is something that I have been thinking about over the last couple of months…

Kotlin’s default arguments can make APIs easier to understand as a user and more effortless to write as a developer. No more manually…

You can send a HTTP request in an Apache Flink application using code similar to the following: The HTTP client you use doesn’t have to be…

Recently I have been playing around with Apache Flink and decided to use the Twitter API as a datasource for my endeavor. This post is…

Sometimes you can’t or don’t want to use Jackson annotations to control your JSON serialization and deserialization. Unfortunately, Jackson…

I am writing this short post after me, and a colleague had a painful experience trying to get Jackson working in a Quarkus application. The…

If you see an error like this while developing a Quarkus application that uses Agroal as its : Please scroll up 1 line in your logs (or…