Thoughts and Processes
I recently moved to the UAE from India with my family. The culture shock was expected. The cost-of-living shock? Not so much. My brain developed this annoying habit: mentally converting every price to INR, then quietly panicking. A coffee that costs what a full meal would back home. Groceries that make you wonder if you [ ]
Recently, I stumbled across the Parquet file format. I know that folks who work with data are acquainted with Parquet and its benefits, but I wanted to explore this from an app development perspective. Quoting their documentation: I had some interesting experience with ClickHouse, another columnar database, so this could be great. Parquet has a [ ]
Kafka recently released Kafka 4.0. It brings many changes, including removal of Zookeeper and going full throttle on KRaft. Now KRaft is responsible for metadata management and removes any depdency on Zookeeper. Let us setup a three node Kafka 4.0 cluster. I am going to use all the three nodes as both brokers and controllers. [ ]
I ve been using Fedora Linux for over a decade, and upgrading the OS is a routine process for me. I started an upgrade about 36 hours ago on my personal laptop, expecting it to be smooth—just like the past few years. However, this time, things went sideways. I encountered an error stating that there was [ ]