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NodeJS Microservices with NestJS, Kafka, and Kubernetes

This is the second post in the “NodeJS Microservices with NestJS, Kafka, and Kubernetes” series, and we’ll build up the second application called microservices. The microservices application will connect to a Kafka cluster to consume the records pushed to a Kafka topic by the api application. Before we begin, make sure you have a working […]

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Top 5 Docker Best Practices for Production Usage

Docker is a containerization platform that has made developing, deploying, and running software much easier. Docker containers are completely isolated from each other, just like traditional VMs, yet they use far fewer resources because they don’t have to run an entire guest OS in order to run their app. Docker enables you to separate your […]

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Docker Compose Kafka Setup (Confluent Cloud)

In this tutorial it is going to be explained how to set up a Docker Compose Kafka cluster for local development. We are going to bind the containers port to the host port so that Kafka is available for other compose stacks running on a different docker network. Four containers will be defined in the […]