Author: Robert Quinlivan

I recently had the opportunity to work on a project upgrading one of Signal’s Redis-based message broker pipelines to Apache Kafka. At Signal, we use Kafka extensively to scale our real-time data platform. Kafka buffers writes to our Cassandra database, enqueues batched data, and provides real-time event streams. We continue to find new ways to …

A few months ago I began working on one of our backend Node.js applications. The application in question was not as stable as we needed it to be, and as I began to talk with former colleagues at another company I found that this is a common experience with Node.js apps. I was not alone. …