In databases, change data capture (CDC) is a set of software design patterns used to determine and track changes in data so that action can be taken using the changed data. In March 2020 I was given a mission: Build a system that will synchronize data between local databases to…

In databases, change data capture (CDC) is a set of software design patterns used to determine and track changes in data so that action can be taken using the changed data. In March 2020 I was given a mission: Build a system that will synchronize data between local databases to…

Data pipelines are a very common tool for data processing. After writing my code for Dataflow and testing it, I turned to the task of the continuous integration and deployment (aka CI/CD) of the pipeline jobs. This post will detail how I had done it with Github actions. Dataflow First, let’s…

In late 2018 I gave a workshop about Spring 5’s new features to Tikal’s full-stack community. The most talked-about feature in Spring 5 was Reactive Spring. As I was preparing the code samples and lessons for the workshop, I realized I was quite limited with the options for a database…

In databases, change data capture (CDC) is a set of software design patterns used to determine and track the data that has changed so that action can be taken using the changed data. Lately I’ve been working on a CDC (Change Data Capture) system, that tracks changes from Postgres-based databases…

In 2019 I started coding in Kotlin, our team had several reasons to try it out: We were creating a new set of services so had a chance to embed some new languages, techniques and frameworks We heard multiple positive reviews about Kotlin Java and I I’ve been coding in Java for many…