Testing Cloud Native Kafka Applications with Testcontainers

Click >>this link<< to read the related tutorial from the AtomicJar Blog.

Integrating Apache Kafka with InfluxDB

Click >>this link<< to read the related tutorial from the InfluxDB Blog.

Back to Engineering Vol. 2: A Path to Wisdom

A Path to “Wisdom” I have been a Java developer for about 17 years already, starting with Java 1.4 and Struts 1.2 and JSP-related stuff. I had a chance to use many other frameworks such as Spring, JSF, Spring Boot, and as a web developer, I enjoyed developing Java for web programming. This was the […]

Back to Engineering: An engineer’s gainings through time

EDIT: As of August 21, I am joining the Ansible Lightspeed engineering team. Stay tuned for another possible article about it! EDIT2: Here is the new article: Back to Engineering Vol. 2: A Path to Wisdom TL;DR: As of December 1st, I am starting a new job in Red Hat, this time as a Principal […]

A day in a coffee shop: Building event-driven systems with structure

A Cheat Sheet for Strimzi Kafka CLI

TL;DR: You can download the Strimzi CLI Cheat Sheet from this link if you are curious about Strimzi CLI capabilities and want a kind of quick reference guide for it. It is a little bit more than one year since I first announced Strimzi Kafka CLI; a command-line interface for Strimzi Kafka Operator. It was […]

Creating a Kafka Connect Cluster on Strimzi by using Strimzi CLI

Access the repo of this post from here: https://github.com/systemcraftsman/strimzi-kafka-cli/tree/master/examples/5_connect If you are interested in more, check out the video that I create a Kafka Connect cluster and the relevant connectors in the article, using Strimzi Kafka CLI:

A Strimzi Kafka Quickstart for Quarkus with Strimzi CLI

Visit the following link to clone this demo: https://github.com/systemcraftsman/quarkus-strimzi-cli-demos

Configuring Kafka Topics, Users and Brokers on Strimzi using Strimzi Kafka CLI

If you are interested more, you can have a look at the short video that I demonstrate the Apache Kafka configuration on Strimzi using Strimzi Kafka CLI:

Messaging Architectures for Cloud-Native Applications

Table of Contents 1. Traditional Applications and Monoliths 1.1. Benefits and Drawbacks 2. Cloud-Native Applications and Microservices 2.1. Challenges 2.1.1. State 2.1.2. Synchronous Communication 2.2. Challenging the Challenges 2.2.1. Asynchronous Messaging and Messaging Architectures Point-to-Point Publish-Subscribe Hybrid model 2.2.2. Events & Event Sourcing 2.2.3. Change Data Capture 2.2.4. Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) 2.3. Solutions […]