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The effects of batch size and linger time on Kafka throughput
By default, Kafka attempts to send records as soon as possible, sending up to max.in.flight.requests.per.connection messages per connection. If you attempt to send more than this, the producer will start batching messages, but ultimately if you saturate the connection so there are unacknowledged message batches pending, the producer enters blocking mode. We can optimise the…
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Using Claude Code for things that aren’t code – product comparisons
Claude Code is pretty amazing. It’s let me build prototypes and improve apps faster than I ever thought possible. But I was wondering – what else can it do? I’ve been using Emby for years, but recently I started to wonder what happened to Jellyfin, the project that forked Emby years ago. So i decided…