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3 usages of kafkacat that I really love 25 Sep 2018

• Kafka, Kafkacat

Losing Bear 26 Nov 2017

Today, Elyse and I lost our best friend. Here's what happened, and here's what we'd like to do to honor is memory

• Bear

Using ldb and sst_dump to inspect Kafka Streams state stores 16 Mar 2017

RocksDB comes with some admin tools that can be used to inspect your state stores outside of your Kafka Streams app. Learn how to use 2 of these tools in this article

• Kafka Streams, RocksDB, ldb, sst_dump

Happy Valentine’s Day 14 Feb 2017

First wood working post. I made a gift for my wife and detailed the process

• Wood working

Deploying a local Kafka cluster with Docker 08 Jan 2017

Run a Kafka cluster using Docker in under 20 minutes

• Kafka, Docker

Accessing the RocksDB state store in Kafka Streams 0.10.0 02 Jan 2017

Learn how to directly access the RocksDB state store in KafkaStreams-0.10.0

• Kafka Streams

Building a Thrift parser with Parboiled and Java 19 Dec 2016

Turn any Thrift file into an Abstract Syntax Tree

• java, thrift

Remove jOOQ code generation task as build dependency 04 Oct 2016

The gradle-jooq-plugin creates an undesirable build dependency. Lets remove it

• java, jOOQ

Python: Custom Function Decorators 30 Aug 2016

Some examples for defining your own function decorators in python

• python