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Building a Service-oriented Architecture with Rails and Kafka

Stella Cotton on January 14, 2019

This blog post is adapted from a talk given by Stella Cotton at RailsConf 2018 titled "So You’ve Got Yourself a Kafka." In recent years, desig...

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Elliot Derhay • Jan 18 '19

Passing along a Twitter question

Hamish Dickson

@_mishy

@ThePracticalDev That's interesting.. why wouldn't you use Kafka itself as the write table?

16:26 PM - 15 Jan 2019

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Stella Cotton • Mar 4 '19

Thanks! I answered on Twitter if anyone is curious:

Stella Cotton

@practice_cactus

@_mishy @ThePracticalDev You definitely could, but it was too much to introduce the concept of Kafka streams and compacted topics in the scope of the talk. We do have a few other blog posts about them though - blog.heroku.com/kafka-streams-… and blog.heroku.com/debugging-kafk…

19:57 PM - 04 Mar 2019

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Thorsten Hirsch • Sep 15 '19

Karafka? Hell, no! I already mixed up Kafka and Karaf (OSGI runtime), but now that I know something called Karafka exists, too, I can mix up things on a whole new level. :-D