Consumers can form groups, aptly named “consumer groups”. These consumer groups determine what records a consumer receives. I know that…

Consumers make up the Kafka client code that reads records from topics, working at the opposite end of the chain as producers and benefiting…

Producers make up the Kafka client code that sends records to topics. These clients dramatically reduce the complexity of leveraging Kafka…

Topics Kafka, at a high level, stores records in topics. When handing a new record off to Kafka, you must decide the name of the topic you…

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…