
[EDA] Running a Local Kafka Cluster with SASL SCRAM Authentication (Docker Compose)
E2E testing is critical for validating production-ready applications. But how do you simulate a secure Kafka environment locally—especially with SASL authentication? This post demonstrates how to spin up a Kafka cluster with both SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-512 using Docker Compose.

[EDA] Kafka (MSK) Monitoring with Burrow Prometheus And Thanos
Still monitoring Kafka using only low-level Input/Output Bytes? Let’s build topic-level monitoring using Burrow, JMX, and Node Exporter.

[EDA] Schema Registry
How can we ensure backward and forward compatibility for event schemas?

[Protocol] Exploring RPC... and GRPC in Depth
Whenever we hear about RPC communication (or maybe it’s just me?), we tend to assume it involves Protocol Buffers over HTTP/2 — that is, gRPC. But what exactly is RPC? Why is gRPC so fast? And when should we use it?

[Go] Go Convention
Efficient Go Project Structure Guide

[LGTM] Elasticsearch to Loki Migration Story
Is heavy-duty Elasticsearch necessary just for basic application monitoring? This post explores the transition to Loki and the lessons learned.

[EDA] Flink Dynamic Job Case Study
Do we really need to redeploy the job every time the policy changes? A deep dive into executing Flink jobs dynamically.

[Go] Gophercon 2024 - Building Minimalistic Backend Microservice in Go
No more unnecessary frameworks—pure Go is the ultimate form of tuning. Learn how to build minimalistic applications with vanilla Go.

[Go] Gophercon 2024 - Go Project Guide from A to Z
How to structure projects in Go, a language without rigid frameworks like Spring. This post introduces practical patterns for feature-driven development and enterprise-level application design.

[Go] Gophercon 2024 - Kubernetes Platform Programming
How to use the Kubernetes API with Go… and deploy applications using Operators