Protocol buffers

Introduction Recently I have been trying to figure out nice and effective approaches for serializing my data across different nodes. Sitting back in the rocking chair, I can recall how CORBA once upon time was supposed to be cool (it was binary and generated code I believe) but somehow was always oh so broken (only […]

Using Kafka with Python and (unit) testing my stuff in it..

This time I needed to post some data through Apache Kafka from some of my existing Python code. People tell me Python is such a lovely thing and everything is great when you do Python. Well, I do find the core language and environment to be great for fast scripting and prototyping. But the documentation […]