Prototype sketching with Apache Camel

Almost every new project contains legacy code, legacy components or systems. Besides the business-logic a lot of boilerplate code has to be created; only to realize the integration of the legacy parts. Additionally at the beginning of a project it is not clear if the chosen approach works to integrate the legacy components. Coding different scenarios to integrate several technologies is not done within a few hours, more likely in a couple of days. I.e an architecture or integration prototype would be helpful to verify the ideas and figuring out possible issues and challenges up front. Weiterlesen

A coffee with Kafka

A few months ago I got in touch with Kafka – the message broker Apache Kafka rather than Franz Kafka the novelist.
Apache Kafka is simply a message broker which claims to be:

  • Fast – Hundreds of MB r/w per second from thousands of clients
  • Scalable
  • Central data backbone – Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines
  • Durable – Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the cluster
  • Fault-tolerance – Cluster-centric design

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