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Redis 5 – bootstrapping a Redis Cluster with Docker

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Abhishek

With Redis 5 (in RC state at time of writing), cluster creation utility is now available as part of redis-cli which is easier as compared to the (previous) ruby way of doing it (using redis-trib) check out the release notes for … Continue reading →

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(eBook) Practical Redis: first few chapters released!

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Abhishek

I am happy to announce that the first few chapters of Practical Redis are now available About Practical Redis   It is a hands-on, code-driven guide to Redis where each chapter is based on an application (simple to medium complexity) which … Continue reading →

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certificate error with Go HTTP client in alpine Docker

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Abhishek

Using the Go HTTP client from a alpine docker image will result in this error – x509: failed to load system roots and no roots provided Solution: alpine is a minimal image, hence CA certificates are required. You add that … Continue reading →

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etcd Watch example using Go client

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Abhishek

etcd is a distributed, highly available key-value store which serves as the persistent back end for Kubernetes Here is an example to demonstrate its Watch feature. For details, check out the README (and the sample code) on Github It uses etcd Docker … Continue reading →

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NATS on Kubernetes example

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Abhishek

In a previous blog, you saw an example of NATS along with producer and consumer – based on Docker Compose. This post uses the same app, but runs on Kubernetes For how to run, follow the README on Github High … Continue reading →

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Debezium test drive

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Abhishek

Debezium is an open source, distributed change data capture system built on top of Apache Kafka. I tried it out and the project is available on Github Setup Details are in the README. It uses the Debezium tutorial as a … Continue reading →

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Docker-ized Kafka Streams applications

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Abhishek

Here is another example of a Kafka Streams based application.. this time, it’s about running it in Docker containers – spawn more containers to distribute the processing load. More details in the README Cheers!

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