Oct 30, 2018 — Not so common Kafka CLI commands Kafka — Recently, a colleague asked how to view keys of consumed records and I wasn’t sure it was possible. I thought I knew all the important cli commands then. Later on, after a google search, I found it was possible. I... Read more

Jul 1, 2017 — Error handling in Scala Scala — Slides for the presentation I gave at Lagos Scala July Meetup. Read more

Mar 30, 2017 — Getting started with Apache Avro Avro — What is Avro ? Avro is a data serialisation and RPC system like protobuff and thrift. It relies on a schema-based system. This schema is in JSON which is an advantage as most languages already have JSON libraries. Avro was... Read more

Nov 14, 2016 — MongoDB Replication MongoDB — Replication? Replication provides redundancy and increases data availability. With multiple copies of data on different database servers, replication provides a level of fault tolerance against the loss of a single database server. — MongoDB Manual A replica set in MongoDB... Read more

Oct 24, 2016 — Why Scala ? Scala — Slides for the presentation I gave at Lagos Scala October Meetup. Read more