Saturday, September 20, 2014

Discovering third party API/SPI implementations using java.util.ServiceLoader

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One interface, many implementations is a very well known object oriented programming paradigm. If you write the implementations yourself th...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Android programming tutorial

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Android is an open source linux based operating system for mobile devices like smart phones, tables and other devices. The purpose of this ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Distributed Systems : Consensus Protocols

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Modern software systems scale by partitioning the data and distributing data across several machines. Systems are made highly available by ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Apache Cassandra : Things to consider before choosing Cassandra

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A lot has been written about NoSql databases. There is lot of hype surrounding many of these databases. Unfortunately most written material...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Apache Kafka JAVA tutorial #1

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In Apache Kafka introduction we discussed some key features of Kafka. In this tutorial we will setup a small Kafka cluster. We will send m...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Apache Kafka Introduction : Should I use Kafka as a message broker ?

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Asynchronous messaging is an important component of any distributed application. Producers and consumers of messages are de-coupled. Produc...
Friday, March 28, 2014

10 Tips for building low latency applications

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In this previous blog on low latency I described 5 tips for building low latency applications. Read that for the first 5 tips. Here are 5 ...