Given the number of API Gateways available on the market, I’m regularly asked which is better. Better is a very subjective term. However, there’s no denying that if you’re advocating for a product, you should know your product and its competitors. In this article, I’d like to share my understanding of Spring Cloud Gateway and how it compares to Apache …

The IKEA effect is a fascinating phenomenon whereby consumers place a (sometimes disproportionately) higher value on things that they have either made themselves, or to which they’ve contributed towards making. This can have a significant influence on perceived value – to the extent that people might value imperfect things they’ve helped create, more than they would value the equivalent, perfect, …

In this tutorial, we explore the powerful combination of Hazelcast and Redpanda to build high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications that react to real-time data. Redpanda is a streaming data platform designed to handle high-throughput, real-time data streams. Compatible with Kafka APIs, Redpanda provides a highly performant and scalable alternative to Apache Kafka. Redpanda’s unique architecture enables it to handle millions …