Whirlpool: Microservices Using Netty And Kafka

Introduction In my last blog, I introduced Netty being used as a web server. That example worked well… as long…

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Getting Started with Sample Programs for Apache Kafka 0.9

Streaming data is of growing interest to many organizations, and most applications need to use a producer-consumer model to ingest…

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What Will You Do in 2016? Apache Spark, Kafka, Drill and More

Let’s have some fun. It’s the start of a new year — we’re on the threshold of something new —…

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Open Source Cloud Formation with Minotaur for Mesos, Kafka and Hadoop

Today I am happy to announce “Minotaur” which is our Open Source AWS based infrastructure for managing big data open source…

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Kafka Benchmark on Chronicle Queue

Overview I was recently asked to compare the performance of Kafka with Chronicle Queue.  No two products are exactly alike,…

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Reporting Metrics to Apache Kafka and Monitoring with Consumers

Apache Kafka has been used for some time now by organizations to consume not only all of the data within its…

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