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What Should I Focus on Learning to be a Successful Software Engineer?
Time is our most precious resource. When you are young and have just started your software engineering career you might not value your time much. But believe me as years pass, you might start feeling that you don’t have enough time to catch up on the most recent thing. We are software engineers and our industry develops fast. The technologies that were in use just a couple of years ago are considered obsolete now.
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Multi-broker Kafka Cluster Setup on your Local Development Machine with docker & docker-compose
TL;DR: a ready to use docker compose file: https://github.com/kaygorodov/multi-broker-local-kafka. Usually when I test my applications locally, I use a single broker kafka cluster. Basically, I just run one docker container with kafka. However, recently I’ve had to test how an application behaves when one of the brokers is inaccessible. For that I had to setup a cluster with more than one broker. In this post, I will explain how the setup is done.
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