Contents tagged with Java
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Kafka : Getting Started
In this blog post, I am going to outline the steps required for setting up Kafka in your local development machine. Kafka is high-scalable distributed commit log management system. It allows multiple producers & consumers to simultaneously publish & consume messages. Kafka is at the core of todays massive streaming data architecture which powers companies like Netflix, AirBnB etc.
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RxJava - Getting Started : Part 1
In this blog post, I am going to explain you the basics of RxJava by walking you through one of the sample application that I have built using RxJava framework. All that the application does is reads line from files, does some pre-processing with the read lines and then prints the output to the console. I will not get into the basics of RxJava or in general reactive programming fundamentals. If you are not familiar with the “Hello World” of reactive programming using RxJava then this might not be the suitable place for you to start. However if you know how to create an Observable and subscribe to it, then you will find this article not too difficult.