How to handle runtime exceptions in Kafka Streams We’ve been using Kafka Streams (1.1.0, Java) as the backbone of our μ-services architecture. We’ve switched to stream mainly because we wanted the...

I’ve been doing a Udemy course as a preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. These are my summary notes AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam 130 minutes...

We’ve started checking out monitoring solutions for our AWS-based infrastructure, and we want it to be not-that-expensive, monitor infrastructure (cpu, I/O, network…) and Application statistics We...

I’m a backend guy, with backend habits and natural aversion from JavaScript. I used to think of it as the frankenstein of language - something hastly created, adopted for usages it wasn’t designed...

TL;DR You have an Ionic application, and you want to use icon badges on Android. You’ve found the cordova badge plugin, but it only works if the the application is running in the foreground/backgro...

###TL;DR It takes the document, computes tf/idf, takes the top 25 (configurable) terms, and queries the DB with these terms with a boost. The long version is extremly interesting, go read it - it ...

we want to get to prod1 but it’s only accessible through mid and we want to reach it from localhost So: ssh -fN -L<LocalPort>:<prod1 ip/hostname>:<prod port> my-keypair.pem ec2-...

We’re developing an ionic app for iOS and android, and handling the Apple provisioning/certificates/apn profile is hell. Just pure hell. One of them most annoying messages is “Your account already...

Heroku just published in their blog a very nice list of best practices for working with nodeJS and npm. Great read!

Multithreading and general multi-tasking in groovy is super easy, thanks to frameworks like GPars. However, even the basic Java frameworks can be easily utilized in groovy for a rapid-no-brainer ta...