TlDR: Concurrency and pre-fetching gives zio-kafka a higher consumer throughput than the default java Kafka client for most workloads. Z... (more…)

This is the first post in the “Go vs. Java” miniseries in which I will show the differences between these two platforms.  Why? This post is targeted at people who code and are eager to learn o… (more…)

When you've been writing Java for a while switching to Python can make you a little anxious. Not only are you learning a new language with new idioms and tools, you're also dealing with a language with far less built-in safety. No more type checks, no mor... (more…)

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their intro courses. Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript.  Philip Guo showed that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The… (more…)

wow-stream - Media streaming with skip ahead on GAE... (more…)