Error handling with Apache Kafka
Introduction Apache Kafka has become one of the most popular technologies for messaging, streaming and event processing for a while now. However, especially in a microservices architecture, things can go …
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Meetup: Resilience
After spending a meetup discovering the power of a modern gaming engine (Unity), it was time to dive into a subject that we have a slightly higher chance of actually …
Meetup: The Unity Gaming Engine
After several months of being able to casually show up to our meetups and simply consume a whole day’s worth of activities, it was once again my turn to do …
Meetup: Machine Learning
Last meetup, the Sourcelabs crew decided to pick up a technical topic that was quite far out of its comfort zone: the wonderful world of Machine Learning. A topic that …
Meetup: Python for Java developers
This month I had the honor of preparing our internal meetup, topic for this meetup: Python. Not Python from that awesome movie or the Efteling, but Python the programming language. …
Meetup: Akka in Kotlin
Every last Friday of the month we organise an internal meetup at Sourcelabs. This time it was my turn to prepare the subject: Akka in Kotlin. Akka is an implementation …
Meetup: An intro to Chrome Extensions
INTRO During our last internal meetup we decided to do things a bit different than usual. Instead of picking one subject and exploring it with the whole group, we decided …
Meetup: Apache Spark
Every last friday of the month we organise an internal meetup at Sourcelabs. Normally we will pick one subject and dive in to it together. But since a lot of …
Meetup: Blockchain
Blockchain, a buzz word that everyone has heard of these days, often mentioned alongside with the best known cryptocurrency: Bitcoin. But how much do we actually know about blockchain? Do …
Talking Kotlin podcast: interview with Roman Elizarov
There is a really interesting interview with Roman Elizarov, the language lead for Kotlin, on the Kotlin by JetBrains YouTube channel. Being a library developer in the past, Roman explains …