Spring Cloud Config provides server-side and client-side support for externalised configuration in a distributed system. With the Config Server, you have a central place to manage external properties for applications across all environments. The concepts on both client and server map identically to the Spring Environment and PropertySource abstractions, so…

I always wanted to have something as quick refresher for data structure. There are lot of material out there to understand any data structure in details and how to implement them. I always felt that if I just need to refresh data structures anytime in 5–10 mins, going through detailed…

In Thoughtworks I was part of 9 months long program focused on women leadership. Every month sessions introduced new tools for leadership. Right after two months I started seeing change in thinking process, knowing my blind spots, knowing myself better, feeling more confidence started taking more space in my heart…

In my current project we designed a Java application which has high memory requirements. We have been using open jdk11, which has some scope of improvement when it comes to grabage collection and memory optimization. It needed 60 GB heap to handle extra load coming during peak period we provided…

In shipping industry it used to take weeks to load and unload the ships to best utilise the space because of uneven shape and different handling instructions of shipping goods. …

Schema registry is a sitting outside Kafka brokers, keeping the schemas required to talk to Kafka. Producer and consumer still talks to Kafka brokers to publish and consume data but schema registry contains mapping of schemas and schema IDs used to publish data and consume that data. …

Choosing Databases while designing solution is most crucial step as if we choose wrong one it might be very painful to revert that decision. I have tried to call out some factor to consider while deciding the SQL and no-SQL DBs. In this blog I have also talked about some…

If you have ever setup Redis cluster you would notice that there is no single node responsible to manage cluster or about health of the cluster. CLUSTER INFO command used to check cluster health and information can be executed on any master and salve node and will provide the same…

Caching is one popular solution when looking to increase performance in accessing data. When you look around to search for distributed cache solutions top 3 would be: Redis, Memcahed and Hazelcast. Redis The Redis project was started in early 2009 by an Italian developer named Salvatore Sanfilippo. Redis was initially…