The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,   In this episode I and Matthias talk about KsqlDb. We have covered the topic in great depth talking about its history, architecture, different concepts, use cases, limitations, comparison to Kafka Streams and so on. References:  ksqlDB - https://ksqldb.io/ exactly once semantics podcast: https://youtu.be/twgbAL_EaQw Matthias Sax: https://twitter.com/MatthiasJSax and https:...

Hey Everyone,  In this episode I have Denis Magda from YugabyteDb with me. We have explained how to build Geo-Distributed Applications in depth.   I am sure this will help you make your applications more scalable, highly resilient, compliant and highly performant. If you liked the video please subscribe to the channel and give me a like.   Further reading:  https://www.yugabyte...

Hey Everyone, In this episode Gunnar Morling, who is the former project lead for Debezium and has recently started working for Decodable, has joined us to talk everything about Change Data Capture with Debezium. We discussed basic and advance topics and features of Debezium. If you are doing dual writes, Debezium could be a great tool for you.  I hope you like the episode. Cheers, The GeekNar...

Hey Everyone, In this episode I am joined by Richard Startin who works with DataDog on Java profiling. Richard has an amazing experience with profiling and benchmarking Java applications and he has explained us what profiling means, how one can get started, different concepts in the world of profiling, tools available, limitations and the future of profiling. I hope you like the episode. Cheers, T...

Hey Everyone, In this episode I am joined by Matthias Sax, who works with Confluent to build the amazing world of Kafka. We have discussed in real depths of Kafka Streams and how Exactly once semantics is implemented. This episode will give you all the details you need to understand how beautifully Kafka imeplements EOS. I hope you like the episode. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone, In this episode Alex Debrie joined us to dive deep into the world of one of the most popular database, i.e. AWS DynamoDB. This is a true masterclass where we go deep into different concepts, architecture and design choices of DynamoDB. We talked about CAP and PACELC, dynamo streams and many other advanced topics as well. I hope you like this masterclass. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone, In this episode Paul Christmann has joined us to demystify the world of Non Functional Requirements. We started with very basics and discussed on top of it, about how one can approach defining Non Functional requirements for a system. I hope you like the discussion. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone, In this episode I invited Arpit Bhayani (#asliengineering) to talk about the famous Bitcoin whitepaper. We have discussed in depth the architecture, design choices, challenges and suggested solutions. I hope you like the episode. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone, This is the part2 of our episode with Franck Pachot. In this episode I talk to Franck Pachot from YugabyteDB who has vast experience in the world of Databases. We have talked about how modern databases work internally. BTrees, LSM trees and various design choices. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone, This is the part1 of our episode with Franck Pachot. In this episode I talk to Franck Pachot from YugabyteDB who has vast experience in the world of Databases. We have talked about how modern databases work internally. BTrees, LSM trees and various design choices.  Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey everyone, This is the part-2 of our episode with Tim Berglund. We have covered some advanced topics on Kafka, Kafka Streams and Apache Pinot. I hope you like the discussion. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone, In this episode I talked to Tim Berglund about his vast experience with Kafka, realtime analytics and Apache Pinot. I hope you like the episode. Do watch the part-2. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

In this podcast I have invited Neha Pawar, who is one of the Founding Engineers are StarTree (the company powering Apache Pinot). We talked about how StarTree has implemented Tiered storage and how it differs from other available implementations.  Note: Currently tiered storage is available only in StarTree’s Pinot and not available in the open source version. But its only about time. Chapter...

In this episode I invited Curtis Einsmann to join us and share his knowledge and experience on how to do code reviews effectively.  Curtis has created a course called "Master the Code Review" which has some great testimonials and amazing feedback.  We have discussed various suggestions on making code reviews more effective for teams and individuals.   Chapters: 00:00 Introduction&nb...

Hey Everyone,  In this episode I had a fun conversation with Pratik Pandey who is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com and has vast experience in the Software Industry specialising in designing systems for large scale workloads.     We have covered System Design in Depth and destroyed the myths around System Design in general.   Agenda:  00:0...

Hey Everyone,  In this episode I invited Patrick McFadin who is an expert in the world of Cassandra and Data Modelling.  Patrick currently works for DataStax as a VP Of Dev Rel. Patrick has given several techtalks on Cassandra and the ecosystem around it. We have covered the architecture of Cassandra in depth.    Heres what we have covered:   00:00 Introduction  04:00...

In this episode I talk to Luis Mineiro, Senior Director at Delivery Hero about Site Reliability Engineering.  We have busted a lot of myths around Site Reliability Engineering as a concept.  We have talked about the following:    00:00 Introduction  02:00 What is SRE? What is NOT SRE?  10:00 DevOps vs SRE vs Developers  13:10 When do we need a dedicated SRE team?...

In this episode I speak with Arasu Shankher, who is working as a CTO at KBX Digital. Arasu has a vast experience as an Engineer, Manager and Technology Leader. He has worked for companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon and has built many high performance teams. We cover extremely important topics for Software Engineers and Managers at all levels. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 Traits of a S...

Hey Everyone,  In this episode I am talking to Mayank Shrivastava who has vast experience into building and maintaining high scale distributed systems. He was in the team that originally built Apache Pinot at Linkedin and is now working at StarTree as the Head of Core Data Engineering.   He has shared some amazing insights from his experience and there is a lot to learn from our discussi...

Hey Everyone,  Welcome to the API design masterclass with our guest Deepak Patil, who works as a Principal Architect at iCertis and has decades of experience building and architecting mission critical experience.   This is the Part-2 of the masterclass and we are going to continue where we left and talk about more practical stuff.   00:00 Sync, Async, Bulk, Composite APIs  10:16 Timeouts, Retries...

Hey Everyone, Welcome to the API design masterclas s with our guest Deepak Patil, who works as a Principal Architect at iCertis ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/01patilde... ) and has decades of experience building and architecting mission critical experience.   We talk about:  Basic API Discussion  00:00 Introduction  03:50 What is an API?  07:10 Why do we want to implement...

Hey All,    In this episode, we have Maheep Bhalla with us, who has been a Senior Leader in the Product Management space for many years and has worked at amazing Tech companies who have built successful products over the years.    We talked about Product Management in general and everything around it.   We start with defining what is Product Management and start diving dee...

Hey 👋 ,   In this podcast we are talking about Distributed Stream Processing at High scale with Maximilian Michels (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianmichels/) , who is an expert in Data intensive applications and an open source maintainer for Apache Flink, Beam and other cool technologies.    We have covered an introduction on Stream Processing at high scale:  - What is s...

In this video I (Kaivalya Apte) talk to Max Linden, CEO and Co-Founder of Lemon.markets, where he shares his insights into entrepreneurship, product mindset, setting goals and making HUGE impact.  -  - What is lemon.markets?  - Why do we need a trading API like lemon.markets?  - What it takes to build a trading API like lemon.markets?  - Why is it named lemon.markets?&nbsp...