Developing a multi-layered web application is a great way for anyone who wants to get into development to try out different frameworks and see how they work with each other. In the last post we talked about how Kafka can be used as a message subscribe system for handling data. Today we will add onContinue reading “Using Kafka in a Multi-layered Web Application”
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Kafka: A Backbone Framework for Application Data
Intro Most application programming done in University takes a focus on functionality but not scalability. Being a recent computer science graduate, I found that we have not been exposed much to real-time data exchanging applications, only simulations. This is why diving into Kafka was a great experience and has shown me just how powerful itContinue reading “Kafka: A Backbone Framework for Application Data”
Scoping for Clients in a COVID-19 Summer
Time for some unsolicited advice from my world of independent contracting. The recruiter noise gets really loud near Kafka and near-deafening at AWS. Apart from that, I thought it was interesting that not much has changed with companies seeking talented developers. The ones that matter, in my opinion, still prefer talent over skill. But still,Continue reading “Scoping for Clients in a COVID-19 Summer”
Custom Collector Basics
If you’ve been playing with Java streams, chances are you’ve used the Collector interface. Said differently, you’ve probably invoked the collect() method on a stream to triger a reduction operation. Something like this: list.stream.collect(Collectors.toList()); There’s a load of predefined collectors that you can create from the factory methods. Collectors.toList is just one of them. SomeContinue reading “Custom Collector Basics”
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