Thursday, November 20, 2014

Apache Kafka Java tutorial #2

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In the blog Kafka introduction , I provided an overview of the features of Apache Kafka, an internet scale messaging broker. In Kafka tutor...
Friday, October 10, 2014

ServletContainerInitializer : Discovering classes in your Web Application

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In my blog on java.util.ServiceLoader, we discussed how it can be used to discover third party implementations of your interfaces. This can...
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...