Part of my job as Developer Advocate is to reach out to developers in social forums like Stackoverflow, Reddit, and Slack communities to check whether I can provide help. While I feel great pleasure in doing this, it is getting harder and harder to help people these days. I have the feeling that developers these …
Author: Ricardo
Data Sharing between Java & Go using Kafka and Protobuf
One of the most incredible things in Apache Kafka is that record values are shapeless, meaning that developers can write any set of bytes they want, and it works just fine. This can be pretty powerful if they share data among different programming languages. However, this characteristic is sometimes inadequate. It creates coupling problems as …
What Apache Kafka has in Common with Rocky Balboa?
If you know me well, you must know that I am a big fan of movies. It is not uncommon to see me in situations where if I need to explain something rather complex, I end up using movies as metaphors to understand what I am trying to explain. In this post, I will explain …
Why the property ‘auto.create.topics.enable’ is disabled in Confluent Cloud?
If you ever used Apache Kafka you may know that in the broker configuration file there is a property named auto.create.topics.enable that allows topics to be automatically created when producers try to write data into it. That means that if a producer tries to write an record to a topic named customers and that topic …
AWS ElastiCache with a Bastion Host using Terraform
AWS ElastiCache is a fully managed service that allows users to easily and quickly use cache technologies like MemCached and Redis without the gory implementation details. But this doesn’t come for free. Developers often complain about the fact that the service is deployed in private subnets and due to that fact — they are not …
Multiple Columns with Redis Sorted Set
Recently I had to build an application that would store and order players in a Redis Sorted Set, but using multiple columns as criteria for the score, instead of just one. After trying to find a proper solution on the web and failing to do so; I decided to put my head to work and …
Confluent Go Client with Docker
If you are reading this blog post then there is a high chance that you’ve been looking for ways to make Confluent’s Go Client for Apache Kafka work with your Docker images but you’re struggling to. Am I right?
Using Logitech Products with Fedora Linux
I am a huge fan of what Logitech creates for the computer industry and I have been using its products for quite some time now. However, for the last 5 years I took the [smart] decision of using Linux for desktop and by doing so — I realized that certain products seems only to work …
Kafka Summit 2019 (San Francisco)
This week I had the honor of being one more time in the most exciting conference for Apache Kafka in the world, known as Kafka Summit. Only this time was different because I could contribute a lot for this conference.
Oracle Code One 2019
Last week I had the chance to attend one more time Oracle’s new developer’s conference know as Oracle Code One. It was so nice to catch up with great friends, plus being able to party with people from the Java community. They certainly know how to make things funny and entertaining.