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When Streams Fail: Implementing a Resilient Apache Kafka Cluster at Goldman Sachs
At QCon New York, Anton Gorshkov presented “When Streams Fail: Kafka Off the Shore”. The talk shared insight into how a platform team at a large financial institution design and operate shared internal messaging clusters like Apache Kafka, and also how they plan for, and resolve, the inevitable failure that occurs.
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But is it Safe?
While it is rare to hear the question, "Is this software safe?", the safety aspects of software are becoming increasingly important. The proliferation of IoT devices increases the widespread impact a small problem can cause. Several techniques exist to help developers analyze and improve the safety of software they create.
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Storm Applied Review and Q&A with the Authors
Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time computation system that was originally developed at BackType and later open sourced by Twitter. Storm Applied is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a practical guide on using Storm, both in a development and in a production setting. InfoQ has spoken with two of the book’s authors, Sean T. Allen and Matthew Jankowski.