Kafka Terminology Overview Before diving into deployment, it's essential to understand core Kafka concepts such as brokers, topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and replication. These are well-documented in the official Apache Kafka documentation and Confluent’s developer resources. Selecting a...
Docker Compose Overview Problem Statement When working with Docker, complex applications typically require multiple services running simultaneously. A typical Django project might need MySQL, Redis, and other dependencies. Maanging these as separate containers individual becomes cumbersome and error...
Introduction to Docker Compose Docker Compose is a tool designed for defining and running applications that require multiple Docker containers. Instead of managing each container individually through the CLI, you describe your entire application stack in a configuration file. With a docker-compose.y...
version: "3.8" services: cache_store: image: redis:7-alpine request_tracker: build: ./request_counter ports: - "3000:3000" Starting with Docker 1.10, network overlay functionality enables cross-host service scaling, while inter-service links only worked on single hosts in earlier...