Understand different components and architecture of Apache Kafka, an event streaming platform capable of handling trillion requests a day. — In last decade, industry has moved from monolith architecture to microservices architecture for agile development. But microservices architecture has its own problems and to overcome them many new technologies have emerged. For example Messaging Queues are becoming more and more popular as a communication channel for decoupled microservices and in…

Recently we started using SonarQube for code quality, security checks and code coverage reports for our projects. SonarQube is an open source static code analyzer, covering 27 programming languages. It helped us to standardize our coding standards and write clean code, making sure no code with code smells goes to…

As defined in the official documentation, ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL and forks (like Percona Server and MariaDB). As the name suggests ProxySQL proxies traffic coming to it to backend MySQL clusters. As ProxySQL is developed by DBAs for DBAs, it is not…

Today almost all popular sites provide options to sign up with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github or similar known and trusted services. Whenever you click the button saying ‘Sign Up with Google’ it opens a window saying ‘You are allowing the site to access your google profile’ and when you click…