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It’s ComicShannsMono. In theory, Comic Sans is recommended for accessibility by the British Dyslexia Association. I started using it as a childish joke, but it ended up becoming my…

A minimalist personal stack: Git for ownership, Markdown for content, and tiny scripts plus AI to automate daily notes, news, and publishing

Reducing cloud expenses with effective Apache Kafka monitoring

This library lets you process messages in parallel via a single Kafka Consumer meaning you can increase consumer parallelism without increasing the number of partitions in the topi…

I'm afraid the article is also wrong, this is a typical misconception when working with Kafka. Offsets are committed in the next poll() invocation. If the previous messages weren't…

This report seems to have some wrong insights. Auto-commit offsets doesn't imply dataloss if records are processed synchronously. This is the safest way to test Kafka instead of co…

Interesting feedback, thanks! What I describe in the article are the challenges of the role based in my experience. What you describe it's the business as usual work. Innovation, d…