Aug 31, 2020 — 10 Reasons for Choosing Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka — I’ve been taking a closer look at Apache Pulsar and how it relates to Apache Kafka. In case you are curious, here are ten of my findings: Read more

Feb 22, 2020 — How Apache Beam Runs on Top of Apache Flink — Apache Flink and Apache Beam are open-source frameworks for parallel, distributed data processing at scale. Unlike Flink, Beam does not come with a full-blown execution engine of its own but plugs into other execution engines, such as Apache Flink, Apache... Read more

Jul 19, 2018 — The CAP Theorem's Common Misconception — A couple of days ago I tweeted about the CAP theorem which sparked some interest and a small conversation on Twitter. Since tweets tend to disappear in the void pretty quickly, I thought I also put this here: The Misconception... Read more

Dec 29, 2017 — Who Is Behind Maven Central? — Ever wondered who or what is behind the central repository which is used to download the dependencies in your Maven / Gradle / SBT builds? Did you specify the repository URL in your build file? You didn’t? The actual URL... Read more