2026

Index this, index that. How does Kafka do it?Almost every Kafka topic runs with index.interval.bytes at its default, and the docs tell you not to worry … Sep 27 · 15 min The batch is the unit: what Kafka actually writes to diskKafka's API hands you one message at a time, so it's natural to assume one message is what gets stored. It … Sep 20 · 14 min Three stores, two cursors: where an SSE consumer should resumeEvery SSE guide ends at Last-Event-ID: resume from the last id you saw. That's correct for one failure mode, … Sep 15 · 8 min Camel sorts your URI parameters, except when it doesn'tApache Camel normalises endpoint URIs by sorting query parameters, so param order shouldn't matter. It does if … Aug 15 · 7 min How jemalloc solves SMP — simplifiedA simplified explanation of how jemalloc's arenas and thread caches solve the SMP scalability problem that … Jun 14 · 4 min

2024

Week 6 with GSoCThe sixth week was mainly focused on improving the code structure as well as implementation of the … Jul 8 · 2 min Week 5 with GSoCThe fifth week was mainly focused on writing the functionalities as an implementation of the abstract layout … Jul 1 · 2 min Week 4 with GSoCThe fourth week included a lot of coding and debugging. The main goal was to successfully apply the layout … Jun 24 · 2 min Week 3 with GSoCThe third week included a lot of exploration and trying out multiple approaches to successfully connect … Jun 17 · 3 min Week 2 with GSoCThe second week included a lot more application of the information gathered in the first week. I also … Jun 10 · 2 min Week 1 with GSoCThe first week was fairly informative. Following is a list of my learnings this week: Learned quite a lot … Jun 3 · 1 min