WSL

Kafka is a robust event streaming platform that is used by a lot of companies these days. As companies and developers adopt an event-driven architecture, advanced data pipelines, and real-time analytics - Kafka is often the default platform of choice. The project itself is open-source and I’ve noticed a lot of “managed” Kafka offering around. I myself have been using a flavour of Kafka (Azure Event Hubs ) quite a lot in my projects and startups....

In the past, I’ve been using my Macbook Pro to do all things blockchain and smart contracts development. One of the hurdles I encountered in the past is that some tooling and frameworks were not first class citizens on Windows. Majority of these tools, especially those that come with scripts and complex networking architecture (circa 2015) just works in MacOS and Linux:Ubuntu. Introduction Of course there have been a lot of improvements now in the ecosystem since then....