“Consistency” is one of those overloaded terms in computer science. It shows up in ACID transactions and in the CAP theorem, but it means very different things depending on the context. Let’s unpack the difference. Consistency in ACID In the ACID world, consistency is really about data integrity. It…
Shapeless is a type class and dependent type based generic programming library for Scala that helps us in tackling heterogeneity in a collection of objects so as to cut boilerplate in our libraries. In this blog post we will see how can we leverage Shapeless to tackle heterogeneity in Apache…
In any distributed system, services need to discover each other to be able to communicate. This requires a broker of sorts in place to which services could register themselves and be discovered by other services. This mechanism is what is known as Service Discovery and the most famous choice of…
What's Redpanda? Redpanda, a Kafka® replacement for mission critical systems: * 10X Faster * Kafka® API Compatible - no code changes * Easy to use - No Zookeeper®, No JVM - built in C++. One binary. Redpanda is a modern streaming data platform. It essentially is a drop-in replacement of Apache…
Repeat after me! Commit history is intrinsic to quality documentation. Let's be honest about the number of times we have been disappointed by a poorly maintained commit history of a project anytime we tried to make sense of it. Good commit messages are intrinsic to meaningfully communicate changes…