Unraveling Apache Kafka: A Comprehensive Exploration of Message Queuing
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Saga pattern
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WebSocket in Go
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WebSockets Unraveled
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Story of our Kafka message loss
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Wrap up on the interview season
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Building a Functional Team
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Having served as an interviewer at all three companies where I’ve been employed, my experience has evolved significantly from when I first