EKEmil Koutanovinmicroservices.hashnode.dev·Mar 4, 2021 · 4 min readThe Design of an Event StoreThe topics “event-driven architecture” “event stream processing” and “event sourcing” have enjoyed quite a buzz as of late. While the concepts are not new, it would seem that only now the software engineering community is beginning to appreciate the ...00
EKEmil Koutanovinmicroservices.hashnode.dev·Jan 25, 2021 · 2 min readCombining strict order with massive parallelism using KafkaGetting the best of both worlds Having been involved in several large-scale Kafka projects for different clients across a broad range of industries, I have heard my fair share of questions on Apache Kafka — ranging from the fundamental to the esoteri...00
EKEmil Koutanovinmicroservices.hashnode.dev·Sep 6, 2020 · 1 min readContrasting NATS with Apache KafkaTL;DR Kafka is an Event Streaming Platform, while NATS is a closer to a conventional Message Queue. Kafka is optimised around the unique needs of emerging Event-Driven Architectures, which enrich the traditional pub-sub model with strong ordering and...00
EKEmil Koutanovinmicroservices.hashnode.dev·Apr 25, 2020Apache Kafka in a NutshellSo, you’ve heard of this Kafka thing that’s popping up all over the shop. From green-sprout startups to greedy multi-nationals, in all sorts of weird and wonderful contexts. It appears that someone has figured out a Swiss Army knife piece of über-tec...00
EKEmil Koutanovinmicroservices.hashnode.dev·Feb 6, 2020Why is Kafka so FastThe last few years have brought about immense changes in the software architecture landscape. The notion of a single monolithic application, or even several coarse-grained services sharing a common data store has been all but erased from the hearts a...00
