Author: Sourabh Verma

Flinkathon: What makes Flink better than Kafka Streams?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Initially, I would like you all to focus on a few questions before comparing the frameworks:1. Is there any comparison or similarity between Flink and the Kafka?2. What could be better in Flink over the Kafka?3. Is it the problem or system requirement to use one over the other? Before talking about the Flink betterment and use cases over the Kafka, let’s first understand their Continue Reading

Kafka: Consumer – Push vs Pull approach

Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever thought about the Push vs Pull approach for the system, which one suits or solves which problem? Another Question why did Kafka choose Pull over Push design for Consumers? Before talking about the Kafka approach, whether the Broker should push the data to consumer or consumer should pull from Kafka? Let’s first understand both of the approaches, as each one has its Continue Reading

Kafka Tuning: Consistency vs Availability

Reading Time: 3 minutes tuning distributed kafka cluster to attain consistency along with high availability of the system.

Iteration in RUST – Working with Loop, While, For

Reading Time: 2 minutes I hope you have already been through the following blogs in order to learn control flow and iteration in RUST: RUST: Quick Start & Exploring Cargo RUST: Begin the Journey with CODE Basically, RUST is no different compared to other programming languages in the context of loops and iteration, if you have already worked with any language like C, C++, Java, Scala, etc. then it Continue Reading

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RUST can never be NULL

Reading Time: 2 minutes You might not know NULL was born more than a half-century ago, and it is still alive to create the mess for us, but not with RUST. Although it was considered to be BOOM for the coders, now it’s becoming a BANE for the programmer. With the emerging languages, creators are avoiding the implementation of NULL now. The inventor of NULL Tony Hoare[2] apologized for inventing it Continue Reading

RUST: Begin the Journey with CODE

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hope so you have already gone through the first blog “RUST: Quick Start & Exploring Cargo” and ready to workout with your fingers and keys. You might be thinking about the basic programming concepts of RUST as a language. With the help of an example, I will try to cover the following points (practically): mutable, immutable variables Standard input/output (console) Functions Data type and conversion Loops: Continue Reading

RUST: Numeric Data Types

Reading Time: 2 minutes You must be wondering what is so special about numeric data types in RUST, that we are focusing on them so much, definitely, you will get to know after finishing this blog. Generally, other programming languages follow short, int, float, long, double etc as numeric data types as per their storage size and capacity while in RUST numeric data type are like : i[size_in_bits] or u[size_in_bits]  Here, i Continue Reading

RUST: Quick Start & Exploring Cargo

Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog will guide you through the brief introduction to RUST, installation, uninstallation, version updating and quick start with its own build tool CARGO. RUST – safe, concurrent, and practical language, much similar to C++ (syntactically) supports functional as well as imperative-procedural paradigms. Setting up RUST in your system: For Linux or Mac: It’s quick and easy to install and setup your system for RUST Continue Reading