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Krishna Kumar Mahto

Krishna Kumar Mahto

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Backend Software Engineer, focused on Java-based backend applications, PostgreSQL in databases, Kafka/ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ in messaging.

Primary Key/Unique ID Column Data Type Considerations

Apr 3, 20248 min read

Background Sequential integer for primary keys/unique IDs has been the default choice in most database systems around the world. It has proven to be...

Primary Key/Unique ID Column Data Type Considerations

Concurrency Terminology - a Simplified Glossary

Dec 22, 20233 min read

This article aims at providing a pedagogical understanding of the different terms associated with multithreading and concurrency. The article uses...

Concurrency Terminology - a Simplified Glossary

Configure Kafka for High Availability

Jan 21, 20234 min read

What does it mean to optimize Kafka for High Availability? This means that the Kafka applications should recover as quickly as possible from failures...

Configure Kafka for High Availability

Configure Kafka for High Durability

Dec 28, 20228 min read

What is Durability in Kafka Durability in Kafka is all about reducing the likelihood of losing a message. Confluent Cloud enforces a replication...

Configure Kafka for High Durability

Configure Kafka for Low Latency

Nov 27, 20223 min read

Latencies in Kafka Production Latency (between Producer and Leader Broker) Consumption latency (between Consumer and Leader Broker) End-to-end...

Configure Kafka for Low Latency

Configure Kafka for High Throughput

Nov 13, 202212 min read

Number of Partitions Topic partitions is a unit of parallelism in Kafka. Therefore, increasing the number of partitions of a given topic may also...

Configure Kafka for High Throughput