Posts

Here is a C# CLI for Kafka to produce and consume messages, and list, create, and delete topics.

Here is a simple explanation of the difference between synchronous and asynchronous API calls.

When changes occur in a CockroachDB table, you can use Change Data Capture (CDC) to stream those changes to Kafka. This post shows how to set up a simple CDC to Kafka, and watch the changes in a Kafka consumer.

This is a follow-up to my CLI consumer for Kafka in C#. Here is a simple CLI producer in C#.

I used to use the Confluent CLI to consume messages from Kafka, but recently it stopped working for me. So I wrote my own simple CLI consumer in C#.

The Factory and Strategy Patterns are very good bedfellows, the factory generates the strategy on the fly without the client ’newing’ up anything.

Here is a simple example showing how to connect two applications running in Docker

It is not immediately obvious how to keep a Docker container running when using Docker Compose. Here is a simple way to do it.

It’s fun to run a couple of .NET applications in Docker and have them talk to each other. In this post, I use Docker Compose with a .NET Web API application and a .NET Worker Service application.

It’s not immediately obvious how to use CockroachDB in secure mode locally. In this post, I walk through the process of creating and using the necessary certificates.