Introduction Apache Kafka is an open-sourced event streaming platform where users can create Kafka topics as data transmission units, and then publish or subscribe to the topic with producers and consumers. While most of the Kafka topics are actively used, some are not needed anymore because business needs changed or the topics themselves are ephemeral. Kafka...
GC Articles
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Co-authored by Lei Gao, Cuong Tran Project Voldemort is an open source implementation of Amazon Dynamo. Voldemort handles a big chunk of traffic at Linkedin, including applications like Skills, People You May Know, Company Follow, Linkedin Share, serving thousands of requests per second over terabytes of data. At the beginning of this year, we migrated our...
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Since I've been declared the local Java Garbage collection guru[1], I've found myself answering the same kinds of questions over and over. "Why am I getting frequent GC pauses?", "How do I avoid long GC pauses?", "Concurrent mode failure - how bad is that?" In the spirit of teaching people to fish, I thought I'd get together a blog post on how you (yes, you!)...