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Checkout some of my recent posts.

  • Rust-In-Action Book Review - Manning publication gave me yet another funtastic opportunity to learn a new technology and contribute back to the technical community at the same time. I am privileged to help in the making of Manning’s Rust-In-Action written by Tim McNamara. Rust In Action is for programmers who aspire to be system programmers without the background of […]
  • Learning Kafka Streams in a Week (or less) - Happy New Year!!! Last year I had an end-of-the-year resolution rather than a new-year resolution. I wanted to make sure that I do not end 2017 Christmas holiday break in an utter lack of productivity. Firing up a cold engine takes efforts, you know! So, I had signed up to review a brand new book […]
  • Tuning Truly Global Kafka Pipelines - "Running Kafka pipelines is like flying a jet engine..."---someone commented during the Tuning Kafka Pipelines talk at the Silicon Valley Code Camp, 2017---"... You have to look at the ratios and not rpms like in a car engine...."
  • Java 8 Lambda Pet Peeves - I started using Java professionally when it was already at version 8. I anticipated Java to be lot more fun compared to when I learned it first sometime in early 2000s. With lambdas,  the Streams API, and completable futures Java now has a handful of functional goodies. Coming from C++11 world, I did not want […]
  • Kafka in Industrial IoT - Kafka is a powerful way to implement the layered databus pattern in Industrial IoT systems.