Random Thoughts on Coding

If you work on systems delivering large quatinties of data, you have probably heard of Kafka if you aren’t using it already. At a very high level, Kafka is a fault tolerant, distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is designed for speed and the ability to handle hundreds of thousands of...

When Java 8 was released a while ago, a great concurrency tool was added, the CompletableFuture class. The CompletableFuture is a Future that can have it’s value explicity set and more interestingly can be chained together to support dependent actions triggered by the CompletableFutures completion. CompletableFutures are analogous to the...

I’ve known about tmux for some time now, but I kept putting off working with it. Lately I’ve started looking at the Processor API available in Kafka. After opening up 4-5 terminal windows (Zookeeper, Kafka, sending messgaes, recieving messages) and toggling in between them, I quickly realized I needed a...

In this post we are going to cover working with the Optional class introduced in Java 8. The introduction of Optional was new only to Java. Guava has had a version of Optional and Scala has had the Option type for some time. Here’s a description of Optional from the...

In this post we are going to discuss creating custom Collector instances. The Collector interface was introduced in the java.util.stream package when Java 8 was released. A Collector is used to “collect” the results of stream operations. Results are collected from a stream when the terminal operation Stream.collect method is...