I’m working with Kafka for more than 2 years and I wasn’t sure if Kafka Consumer eats more RAM memory when it has more partitions. I couldn’t find any useful information on the internet, so I decided to measure everything by myself. Inputs I started with 1 broker, since I am interested in actual memory consumption for 1 and 1000...
Intro Why do people do microservices architecture? Let’s start with a review of a classical, old-school, n-tier application, which is often called a monolith: Everyone worked with this types of applications, we were studying them in university, we did lot’s of projects with this architecture and at first glance, it’s a good architecture. We can immediately start doing systems on...
When I first started to look at Kafka as a event publishing system, my first question was ‘How to create pub/sub and queue type of events?’. Unfortunately, there was no quick answers for that, because the way Kafka works. My previous article was about Kafka basics, which you can, of course, read and get more information about this cool commit...
Preface Today, we live in a world, which defines no ip addresses and is dynamically changing minute by minute. As amount of services increase every day, we receive new problems. Story Just imagine, that you have a monolithic application, which you want to rewrite into microservices architecture. You start with a single service, which, let’s say, maintains profile functionality. You...
