Kafka Pixy and TLS

While looking for a suitable REST/Web proxy for Kafka I stumbled upon Kafka Pixy. Out of the box Kafka Pixy supports a very simple REST API as well as a more performant gRPC API and so it looked like a great option. Setting it up looked very straight forward until I realized that it did not support TLS connections to Kafka. I searched the Github issues and sadly my initial understanding was confirmed with issue #178 - TLS between kafka-pixy and kafka....

February 19, 2020 · 1 min · Ali Hamidi

Projectionist for Go

I’ve been using Vim exclusively for all of my Go development work for the past year or so and over that time I’ve slowly been customizing my setup. There are a number of essential plugins, including Vim-go and YouCompleteMe, but after recently working on a Rails project I encountered Vim-rails which includes some useful commands to jump around the project such as: :Econtroller users :Emodel thing :Eview blah Along with setting up alternates for jumping between source files and test files etc…...

September 9, 2015 · 1 min · Ali Hamidi