Weekly Digest · 2023 CW 1 + CW 2

Credits & References

• I've been analysing and profiling a Java app in need of POJO serialization for data persistence and found following comparison by @jianzhang.yjz extremely valuable:
  https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/an-introduction-and-comparison-of-several-common-java-serialization-frameworks_597900

Interesting reads

• Post by Neil Buesing on getting started with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Confluent’s Schema Registry:
  https://www.kineticedge.io/blog/fink-and-kafka/

Released this week

• Arrow 1.1.4 & 1.1.5 is now available https://www.47deg.com/blog/arrow-v1-01-4-release/
• A new Thriving.dev project has been made public + tagged as an initial stable release v0.1.0:
  • kafka-streams-cassandra-state-store is a Kafka Streams State Store implementation that persists data to Apache Cassandra. For now, only KeyValueStore type is supported.
  • Source code, quick start, and examples can be found on Github
    https://github.com/thriving-dev/kafka-streams-cassandra-state-store