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Understanding Kafka Poison Pills
Imagine publishing a message to Kafka topic A. Suddenly, your consumer crashes. It hit a deserialization error. Because the client never successfully processes the record, it never commits the offset. Upon restarting, it reads the exact same record again, failing repeatedly in an infinite loop. This bad record is called a poison pill...
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Mastering Ethereum: Implementing Smart Contracts
These are my learning notes and reflections while reading "Mastering Ethereum: Implementing Smart Contracts" by Carlo Parisi, Alessandro Mazza, Niccolo Pozzolini, Gavin Wood, and Andreas M. Antonopoulos. I plan to update this periodically as I progress through the book...
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Canton Node Upgrade Runbook
Upgrading a Canton validator node requires careful coordination with the network and the correct upgrade sequence. Although the upgrade itself is straightforward, performing it at the wrong time or upgrading components in the wrong order can lead to synchronization failures or unnecessary downtime...
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