Kafka

One trace threading through five lanes, from browser to Angular, Java, .NET, Go and Node, over HTTP, gRPC and Kafka

Observability in Practice: Distributed Systems, Cost and Production

Part 2 of 2. One browser click crossing five systems and four languages in a single trace, and what changes when that goes to production: tail sampling, cardinality, exemplars and SLOs.

August 9, 2026 路 34 min 路 Matheus Oliveira
16-bit SNES pixel art of a horizontal shoot-em-up where a starfighter launches data capsules flowing along three neon lanes numbered like partitions, with three satellite drones in formation consuming each lane, KAFKA logo on the HUD

Kafka Integration in Quarkus: Reactive Messaging, @Incoming and @Outgoing

Take messaging outside the application with SmallRye Reactive Messaging. Channels vs Topics, @Incoming, @Outgoing, Emitter, automatic JSON serialization, and Dev Services starting the broker without you installing anything.

August 1, 2026 路 22 min 路 Matheus Oliveira