Setting You’re the gal/guy who is tasked with taking care of and running the data processing infrastructure at ACME Corp. That’s the complex and sensitive machinery that does all the heavy data lifting in your company, yet never reaps any rewards for it. …

Showcase on how to read data from a structured file, map record data, and output the data Kafka cloud with the layline.io Reactive Real-Time Messaging platform. What we’re demonstrating We’re showcasing a simple layline.io Project which reads data from a file and outputs its contents into a Kafka topic. To follow the showcase…

The traditional Microservices model on Kubernetes/Docker has some disadvantages which result in overly complex management and resource consumption. In this article we explain how layline.io embraces container and container orchestration technology, while helping to resolve the aforementioned challenges with a better approach. Quick explainer: Kubernetes (K8S) & Docker Containers Programs running on Kubernetes are packaged into Containers…

You may be missing out if you are data-driven only. In fact, every business is data-driven. But you should ask yourself what that really means, and whether it is sufficient for you tomorrow. What does it mean to be “data-driven” (technically)? Data-driven means that data manifests somewhere in your business, and other systems — which may require this…

For some years now Microservices and Service-oriented architectures have been all the rage. Shortly after that, containerization helped to abstract installed platform from deployed platform by packaging OS and dependent libs up with the actual application. But where there is light, there is shadow. Working with and using Microservices comes with its own set of challenges. We found a pretty comprehensive list here…

What is data-pressure? You hear a lot about data-pressure when it comes to non-stop systems. What is it and why is it so important? Pressure in the physical sense describes an imbalance between gas or fluid between to confined compartments. It goes both ways until an equilibrium is reached. …

The good stuff about akka streams A couple of years ago Stefan (my partner-in-crime) and I came across an open-source project named “akka streams”. For those of you who don’t know akka-streams: It’s an open-source programming library for message processing based on Java/Scala. On the akka gitHub page we find the following quote: “We believe that…