Kafka is not dead, it’s just in a different packaging
‘Kafka is dead’ is a statement that is circulating more and more often. Critics point to a lack of innovation, the complexity of the product and the emergence of …
Tag: streaming
Capturing those elusive Video Streams on Windows 10
I have tried to capture various video streams running in my browser using a plethora of screen capture and video recording tools. However, some streams prove hard to pin …
Asynchronous Function Calls through API Gateway on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In a recent article, I described how serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can invoke each other: synchronously and asynchronously. Although asynchronous calls are the desired state, such calls …
OCI Serverless Functions invoking other Functions – synchronous and asynchronously through API Gateway and Streaming
OCI allows for cloud native application development, using facilities such as serverless functions, a light weight API gateway, a streaming service for asynchronous communication based on event messaging and …
Oracle Cloud Streaming Service – Scalable, Reliable, Kafka-like Event service on OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Streaming service. This service is easily described as a Kafka-like fully managed event platform for high volume streams of data that can be processed …
Deprecated: (!First Steps) with Oracle Cloud’s Pub/Sub Service: Oracle Messaging Cloud Service
Fire and forget messaging is a powerful concept. Asynchronous, decoupled communication is key to scalability and independence of services. Oracle Cloud provides a pub/sub solution called Oracle Messaging Cloud …
Kafka Streams and NodeJS – Consuming and periodically reporting in Node.JS on the results from a Kafka Streams streaming analytics application
In several previous articles on Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams and Node.JS for interacting with Apache Kafka, I have described how to create a Node.JS application that publishes messages to …
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – Mobility and Internet of Things
Internet of Things continues to be of great potential interest – with tens of billions connected devices to sense and record and report and actuate when necessary. Cars, running …
First steps with jWebSocket – open source Java framework for WebSockets – installation and running samples
This month, In have been delving into Push architectures for the Web, looking into WebSockets among several other things. WebSockets, a fairly new standard (!) evolved along with HTML …