I’m brand new to writing KIPs (Kafka Improvement Proposals). I’ve written two so far, and my hands sweat every time I hit send on an email with ‘ KIP’ in the title. But I’ve also learned a lot from the process: about Apache Kafka internals, the process of writing KIPs, the Kafka community, and the most important motivation for developing software: our end users. What did I actually write? Let’s review KIP-941 and KIP-1020.

To effectively guide the evolution of a software system and ensure its long-term stability and maintainability, it’s crucial to understand the phenomena of architectural drift and erosion.

API design principles are models for building strong connections in a digital world where APIs bridge gaps between systems. This article strips down the complexity of API design to present you with the tried-and-true principles that ensure functionality, reliability, and ease of use. Learn to lay the foundations of a great API without the guesswork so you can focus on what truly matters: crafting an exceptional tool that seamlessly integrates and scales with technological demands.

3. Elevate risk governance to the next level. NatWest is the UK's leading business bank and second-largest retail mortgage provider. Lengthy change implementation processes hindered risk governance at the bank. Initiating change projects or launching products and applications meant navigating layers of policy checks and approvals, which could take up to 73 days.

In our previous blog, we explored how to build a modern web server using BunJs and Prisma, integrating robust authentication mechanisms with JWT tokens. Now, it’s time to ensure our application is reliable and error-free through thorough testing. In this blog, we’ll dive into testing methodologies using Cucumber JS and Keploy, both are a powerful tools that streamline the testing process and enhance the quality of our application.

Customer experiences matter. And many businesses struggle to improve them. More often than not, a bad process is to blame: manual tasks, data spread across too many systems, or even just old ad hoc workflows that linger on because that’s how it’s always been done. But the cost of ignoring these issues is high.

On April 24, we released Snowflake Arctic with a key goal in mind: to be truly open. In line with that goal, the Snowflake AI Research team is writing a series of cookbooks to describe how to pretrain, fine-tune, evaluate, and serve large-scale mixture-of-experts (MoEs) such as Arctic.

While designers and SEO experts are united in their focus on addressing user experience and user intent when designing a website, there are some areas where they don’t always see eye to eye. These include labeling for users vs. labeling for search engines and consolidation of content vs. expansion of content. Is there a way to address the needs of both sides while creating the best possible user outcome? Absolutely.

This guide provides a streamlined approach to the API development process, detailing the essential phases from the initial concept to the realization of a fully operational API. You’ll discover how to plan, design, and implement your own API and ensure it’s reliable and secure. With practical insights and actionable advice, you’ll learn the nuances of API development, from understanding the needs of your users to creating a scalable infrastructure that can handle growth.

In this article, We will try to explore Token Bucket algorithm and its implementation in NodeJS for API Rate Limiting in very simple terms.