Streaming

Architecting gRPC Streaming Services with Envoy as an API Gateway

How to design, configure, and operate Envoy as an API gateway for gRPC streaming services — covering protocol translation, observability, and the failure modes that bite in production.

Diagram of Flink checkpoint barriers flowing through a streaming pipeline with aligned state snapshots.

Inside Apache Flink's Checkpointing Algorithm: How Exactly-Once State Guarantees Survive Pipeline Failures

How Apache Flink’s distributed snapshot algorithm coordinates barriers across operators, persists state to durable storage, and recovers jobs after failure without losing or duplicating records.

Illustration of Kafka partitions flowing into consumer groups.

Mastering Apache Kafka Topic Partitioning and Consumer Group Rebalancing for Production-Ready Data Streams

A deep dive into Kafka partitioning strategies and consumer group rebalancing, illustrated with real‑world architecture, code snippets, and proven production patterns.

Illustration of Kafka brokers with partitioned topics and consumer groups.

Mastering Apache Kafka Topic Partitioning and Consumer Group Rebalancing for Production-Ready Pipelines

Learn how to size Kafka partitions, avoid common rebalancing pitfalls, and implement resilient consumer group strategies that keep production pipelines humming.

Illustration of multiple QUIC streams flowing in parallel over a single connection.

Deep Dive into QUIC Stream Multiplexing: Eliminating Head-of-Line Blocking in Modern Network Protocols

A technical walkthrough of QUIC’s stream multiplexing, why it outperforms TCP’s multiplexing, and actionable patterns for scaling low‑latency services.