I’ve recently started reading The Definitive Guide to Kafka. Here are my diagrams covering the first couple chapters of the book. It provides a general overview as well as details on producers and consumers.

The end of the year is such a busy time! As a follow-up to my last blog post about Handling Contention with PostgreSQL, here’s a post that digs into how CockroachDB handles contention. Like PostgreSQL, CockroachDB uses MVCC to figure out the right version of data…