To get your results many times faster — Over the last year, I learned a lot about how to optimize PostgreSQL performance, and in this post, I want to share some of the key learnings on how to get the most out of our database. Have you ever received questions from your team or customers about why the…

Explained through QnA — Recently in my work, I came across a scenario where the application needed to consume messages from multiple queues. I found it interesting, how Kafka manages to provide such ability to the consumers in a reliable manner. I had a lot of questions in my mind that I needed answers…

Learn about Kafka consumers and how to reliably consume data from topics — To read data from Kafka, clients need to subscribe to a Kafka topic and start receiving messages from the topic. Reading data from Kafka requires understanding of a few unique concepts and without good knowledge these concepts it is tough to use the consumer API properly. Kafka Consumer Concepts In order to read…

Leverage the Nameko capabilities to build scalable, robust microservice systems — In this article, we will learn about Nameko and its capabilities as a microservice framework. What is Nameko? Nameko is a framework for building lightweight, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant services in Python following a micro-service architecture design. It comes with built-in support for: RPC over AMQP Asynchronous events (pub-sub) over AMQP