In Coming The way a coroutine actually behaves still does not quite click, does it? How on earth does it only look like things run at the same time? How does a coroutine hop back and forth betwe...
In Coming Over the last two posts we took apart the Kafka Consumer and the Kafka Producer: Apache Kafka Consumer - A Deep Dive into HeartBeat & Rebalancing Apache Kafka Producer - Partit...
In Coming We have covered the basic concepts of coroutines before. Now it is time to take that coroutine knowledge and connect it to Spring WebFlux. In this post I want to walk through the code ...
In Coming Today I am back with a Kubernetes story. So far we have looked at how to deploy with a Deployment, and how to auto scale the running pods with an HPA. Today let’s go one step further an...
In Coming With Java 21 landing as an LTS release, Virtual Thread has been getting a lot of attention — so let’s talk about it. A Virtual Thread runs on top of a Platform thread. When I/O blocking...
In Coming Today I want to talk about something that is close to a required skill for any server developer — performance testing. Once you spend some time doing this job for real, you keep running...
In Coming Last time we walked through how a Kafka Consumer actually works — Apache Kafka Consumer - A Deep Dive into HeartBeat & Rebalancing. What we never got around to was the Producer side...
In Coming This time let’s look at how a Consumer actually does its consuming. Everything below assumes you are using the spring-kafka module. Consumer First of all, what is a Kafka Consumer? Wh...
In Coming Lately every news outlet and every IT company is talking about the arrival of the Agentic AI era. There is a fair amount of hype in how the press packages Agentic AI, but among develope...
In Coming Last time we learned how to call a very basic LLM API and use a tool in a simple way. If you are curious about that, take a look at the previous post first. Serving Text and Tools w...