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Apache Kafka — Core Concepts and When to Use It

Topics, partitions, consumer groups, and the use cases where Kafka excels.

Kafka streaming event log topics partitions
48 views May 24, 2026
Article Product Engineering

Microservices Communication — Sync vs Async Patterns

REST, gRPC, message queues, and choosing the right pattern for each interaction.

microservices gRPC REST message queue Kafka
37 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Batch vs Streaming Pipelines — Choosing the Right Pattern

Lambda architecture, Kappa architecture, and practical guidance for choosing.

batch streaming Lambda architecture Kappa architecture Flink
52 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Monitoring and Alerting for Data Pipelines

What to monitor, SLIs/SLOs for data, and building effective alerting.

monitoring alerting SLI SLO Prometheus
45 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Schema Registry and Avro for Kafka Data Contracts

Why schema management matters for streaming pipelines and how to implement it.

Avro Schema Registry Kafka data contracts schema evolution
46 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) — Federated SQL Across Data Sources

Architecture, connectors, query federation, and performance tuning.

Trino Presto federated query SQL Iceberg
48 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Real-Time Analytics Architecture Patterns

Lambda, Kappa, HTAP, and choosing the right pattern for sub-second analytics.

real-time analytics ClickHouse Druid Flink HTAP
44 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Running Data Workloads on Kubernetes

Spark on K8s, Airflow on K8s, resource requests, and storage patterns.

Kubernetes K8s Spark Airflow KubernetesExecutor
49 views May 24, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Change Data Capture (CDC) — Debezium and Log-Based CDC

How CDC works, why it beats polling, and how to implement it with Debezium.

CDC change data capture Debezium Kafka WAL
41 views May 23, 2026
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Data & Platform — Service Overview

Pipelines, vector stores, governance, and privacy-first data design.

data platform pipelines vector store governance privacy
41 views May 23, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Data Platform Cost Optimization Strategies

Reducing Snowflake, S3, Spark, and Kafka spend without sacrificing performance.

cost optimization Snowflake S3 Spark Kafka
45 views May 22, 2026
Article Data & Platform

Event-Driven Data Architecture Patterns

Event sourcing, CQRS, outbox pattern, and when event-driven beats request/response.

event sourcing CQRS outbox pattern event-driven Kafka
39 views May 19, 2026