Distributed System

Understanding Transactional Outbox Pattern

Introduction: Microservices have become the standard in software development, offering benefits such as scalability, rapid deployments, smaller codebases, and low coupling. However, there’s a common pitfall: the risk of unintentionally creating a distributed monolithic architecture, where the failure of one service can impact others. To address this, we need a robust communication strategy that ensures…

Micronaut

Integrating Apache Kafka with Micronaut: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction: Micronaut is a popular framework for building lightweight and efficient microservices in Java, Kotlin, and Groovy. When you need to integrate Kafka into your Micronaut application for event-driven processing, it’s essential to set up the integration correctly. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of integrating Kafka with a Micronaut application. Prerequisites:…

Tech

A Detailed Introduction to Kafka Components

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform, that allows us to process streams of record in real-time. The Apache Kafka achieve this by the help of following components. Producer Kafka Cluster Brokers Topic Partitions Consumers Producer:  Apache Kafka Producers are applications that generate data and write it to one or more topics in a Kafka…