Interesting Stuff - Week 18, 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

[Designing Distributed Systems with TLA+][]. An InfoQ presentation where the presenter discusses the ideas behind TLA+, which is a specification language that describes a system, its properties, and how it works.

Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2019 Update. This post is about the improvements and new features in .NET Core 3.0 related to Docker and running your code in Docker.

YugaByte DB - A Planet-scale Database for Low Latency Transactional Apps. This is an InfoQ presentation introducing and demoing YugaByte DB, a large scale DB, highlighting distributed transactions with global consistency.

Detecting Financial Fraud at Scale with Decision Trees and MLflow on Databricks. An excellent post about how to use Databricks to detect fraud. Why I like this article is because of the sample code, it makes it easy to follow along.

Optimizing Kafka Streams Applications. This article discusses how one can optimize Kafka Stream applications based on the new processor topology optimization framework which Kafka Streams 2.1 introduced.
The PipelineDB Team Joins Confluent. I had no idea that PipelineDB existed before this blog post. In my mind, PipelineDB joining Confluent can be huge, and I cannot wait to see what they dream up.
Load-Balanced Apache Kafka: Derivco’s Globally Distributed Gaming Business. My colleague Charl Lamprecht and I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Tim Berglund (no relations) for a Kafka podcast. We, or rather Charl as I had audio issues, spoke about Kafka, load balancing via F5’s and the journey we have had to get Kafka implemented in Derivco.

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.