Interesting Stuff - Week 13, 2019

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

This blog-post is the “roundup” of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

Distributed Computing

Calvin: fast distributed transactions for partitioned database systems. In this white-paper dissection by Adrian, he looks at Calvin which is a transaction scheduling and data replication layer that uses a deterministic ordering guarantee to reduce the high contention costs associated with distributed transactions significantly.

SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.4 is now available. What the title says. I downloaded the CTP a couple of days ago, and when I am done with this post, I will install it. Oh, word of warning - if you want to install the SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster, please remember to uninstall and reinstall mssqlctl, so you get the latest version.

The Importance of Distributed Tracing for Apache-Kafka-Based Applications. This blog post looks at how to instrument Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing capabilities to make dataflows between event-based components more visible. Very interesting!
Consuming Messages Out of Apache Kafka in a Browser. The post covers what the title says; how to consume Kafka messages in a browser.
Exploring KSQL Stream-Stream Joins. This is an excellent post by Robin where he covers KSQL and stream to stream joins! I need to go off and ~~play with~~ research this now!

I am still working on the post about CREATE EXTERNAL LIBRARY in the Install R Packages in SQL Server ML Services series. Expect it towards the end of this coming week.

That’s all for this week. I hope you enjoy what I did put together. If you have ideas for what to cover, please comment on this post or ping me.