Setting up a Polywork subdomain for a Netlify hosted site

September 08, 2021
general

Polywork allows you to point a subdomain of your own site to your Polywork profile/feed. They do have instructions on setting this up…

Perfect is the enemy of good

August 30, 2021
general

Perfect is the enemy of good. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. These are the quotes handed to me when I googled what I…

Intro to Kafka - Ordering related records

August 06, 2021
kafkakotlin

Ordering records in Kafka requires you to make a conscious decision to construct your system in a way that supports ordering. You don’t have…

Intro to Kafka - Consumer groups

June 20, 2021
kafkakotlin

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

Intro to Kafka - Consumers

May 09, 2021
kafkakotlin

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

Intro to Kafka - Producers

April 24, 2021
kafkakotlin

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

Intro to Kafka - Topics and partitions

April 12, 2021
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…

Kafka producer and consumer written with Kotlin

April 03, 2021
kafkakotlin

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…

Running Kafka locally with Docker

March 28, 2021
kafkadocker

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

Public val with a private backing field

March 14, 2021
kotlin

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