Demystifying gRPC vs Thrift Few days back I saw Elon Musk’s tweet with twitter’s high level diagram which is as follows:- (credit : google images redit) Apologies for the poor-quality image but try focusing on red circled portion of the image “THRIFT RPC”. RPC stands for Remote Procedural Calls. Bookish…

Why & When to use HTTP/2 over HTTP/1.1 The topmost layer of the OSI model i.e. APPLICATION layer contains the communication protocols used for inter-process communication across the computer network. (image credit : google geeksforgeek) One of the protocols among them is HTTP (Hypertext transfer protocol) created in 1997 whose usable version was called HTTP/1.1 & surprisingly, it…

With the number of applications available on play store & the growing number of applicants in coding marathons, it’s quiet apparent that coding isn’t a big deal any more. But developing a scalable application is still an elephant in the room. With this post we’ll be starting a series of…

Welcome readers to yet another series & this time we’re going to turn some big rocks of data streaming. So without wasting much time let me introduce you to Apache Kafka. Let’s begin with the theoretical definition: Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by the Apache Software…

A Stream represents a sequence of objects. A stream operates on a data source, such as an array or a collection. A stream itself never provides storage for the data. It simply moves data, possibly filtering, sorting or otherwise operating on that data in the process. Remember, A Stream Operation…

Before I begin this session, I assume that you’ve worked on services that come under standard coding architectural practices. If not, then I recommend you to take look before you go ahead. Dependency injection, commonly known as DI. Dependency injection is a technique whereby one object (or static method) supplies…

What is SOLR? Apache Solr is an open-source search platform built upon a Java library called Lucene. Solr is a search engine at heart, but it is much more than that. It is a NoSQL database with transactional support. …

Lazy loading of modules in angular allows an application to load modules only when they are needed i.e. whenever a route is called corresponding to a component of a module. This is achieved using loadchildren() & thus affects the application’s performance & size. Let’s try to understand this with the…