Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:
- data science
- data in general
- distributed computing
- SQL Server
- transactions (both db as well as non db)
- and other “stuff”
This blog-post is the “roundup” of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.
Distributed Computing
- Advanced Distributed Systems Design (Online Course). Udi Dahan is one of the world’s foremost experts on Service-Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems and Domain-Driven Design. Enrol for free and learn all about distributed systems design. Usually, this course costs $2,500, but now - due to the pandemic - it is free! Udi is an excellent instructor, and as one of my colleagues said: as apposed to other so-called experts, there is none of this “tear down, and build up” bullsh%t.
- Decomposing a Monolith Does Not Require Microservices - Sam Newman at QCon London. This is an InfoQ article based on a presentation by Sam Newman at QCon in London, where he discussed breaking down monoliths.
- Paxos consensus for beginners. The post here tries to explain Paxos. Paxos is a consensus algorithm, and most other consensus algorithms, such as Raft, ZAB, etc., are based on Paxos. So I said that the post tries to explain Paxos, and in my mind, the author succeeds!
Streaming
- Resiliency and Disaster Recovery with Kafka. The post linked to here presents possible solutions for running a multi-region Kafka setup. I really liked the post as it gave some solutions to issues we have at Derivco right now.
- Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB. This post does exactly what the title says: Robin Moffat, (Mr Kafka), shows us how to use Kafka and ksqlDB together to build an awesome app! Very cool usage of ksqlDB!
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Learn how to use Kafkacat — the most versatile Kafka CLI client.
kafkacatis a command-line tool for producing and consuming Kafka messages, (and more), and in the post, the author talks us through how easy it is to use. - Announcing ksqlDB 0.9.0. As the title says; the post announces ksqlDB 0.9, and looks at some new features. I am quite interested in the multi-join support! That will come in quite handy for us.
- Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency. This post outlines the work done to remove the ZooKeeper dependency from Kafka.
WIND (What Is Niels Doing)
Still in lock-down! It is now coming up to two months, and I do not see any end in sight. The only positive is that the restrictions on online commerce have been lifted, so I managed to get me a Corsair K95 RGB PLATINUM XT keyboard. I like it!
I wrote in one the Interesting Stuff - Week 17, 2020 post about how Microsoft has open-sourced the SQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework, and I am working together with a couple of other MVPs and Microsoft developer on a .NET extension. Watch this space!
I am also working on the follow-up to the A Lap Around SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster: Background & Technology post. The upcoming post looks at the architecture. So when will it be published you may ask? I have learnt from my mistakes, so at this stage, I have no idea.
~ Finally
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.
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