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#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)

Happy Path Programming

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Kafka's Built-in Push to JavaScript

Kafka was written in what I like to call Java Scala, that's a good way to put it. And then as they built out the ecosystem, it's in Java. My favorite class in all of Kafka is partitioned.scala. It's the one that controls like who owns what, right? Who's in sync and for a distributed system, as you might imagine, that's kind of critical,. Like semi-colons are really important. The way that they've made those hard choices to be elegant and to build something that is part of the reason why I fell in love with Kafka. They got the, they got the foundational pieces done well. Oracle has an

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