Change is coming. Kafka Tiered Storage for the Masses If you’re a Kafka fan you may have heard that Apache Kafka 3.6 RC 0 implements tiered storage for Kafka. This means a preview will be available in the opensource Kafka. Until now tiered storage was not supported natively in Kafka and has only been available using…

How do you know if your service is at its limits? I am not a Kafka expert, but I do work with it on an almost daily basis. Recently, one of my clients told me they were considering implementing a feature that would double their Kafka workload and asked if…

This is my dead simple Rust development setup on GCP Quick and Dirty I do a lot of work in the cloud so moving my development environment there makes sense for some things. In addition, it makes my development environment very consistent which is important for things like benchmarking as I can reproduce…

Sometimes being frugal can bite you in the ass My wife and I recently sold our home and bought a sailboat to live aboard. We have no experience living aboard a sailboat, and she had never sailed before. My sailing experience was limited to teaching myself to sail Hobie 16…

I ignored my retirement and now time is running out. I hope you learn from my mistakes. — I’m yet another average guy in the tech industry. I’m 55 years old. I was born in a tiny town in the middle of Arkansas at a time when, if you were extremely lucky, your middle school might have had a Tandy TRS-80 in the “Gifted and Talented” program that…

Will it last or will the recent behavior of the Rust Foundation scare MS away? — Windows Loves Rust At BlueHat IL 2023, in Tel Aviv on March 29-30, David Weston, the director of OS Security for Windows, announced that Windows would be booting with Rust in the kernel soon, “in probably the next several weeks or months”. That’s pretty exciting to Rust fans out there. It’s no secret…

They say buy experiences, not things. They’re thinking too small. You can’t buy happiness Everyone has talked about it; buying experiences, not things brings more happiness. Studies prove this. Gurus, life coaches, and doctors will all tell you this. …

Intro Working with the CLI tends to be a very opinionated environment. Everyone has their own preferred tools. Everyone’s workflow is slightly different depending on personal preferences, the tasks they regularly perform, and even workplace culture. But regardless of preference, culture, or daily tasks, some things remain common. Overview of CLI Usage When using the…

There’s a reason the stereotype exists There’s a reason that the image of the programmer sitting in front of a terminal emulator using arcane commands is an enduring stereotype. I’ve written before how the command line is inescapable if you’re a software developer. …