Our product completely supports Java and we love Java developers. However, internally for our own code, we believe the era of the JVM is coming to an end. We found these 3 things initially attractive about Go: Instant compile times and program startup for

Lets get one thing out of the way, declaring dependencies like this: implementation 'org.apache.tapestry:commons:5.5.0' is waaaaay better than declaring them like this: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tapestry</groupId> <artifactId>commons&

Choosing Hibernate when your Java code interacts with SQL databases is widely considered the default choice. We however use the JOOQ code generator instead. Here are some of the reasons why we think it's a better choice. Schema Definition In an ideal case, you

Today we are open sourcing one of our internal tools kafka-schema-sync. One of the problems we face at Astradot is keeping our staging and prod environments in sync with respect to Kafka topics. Engineers can create tons of Kafka topics, with different configurations for

SetupOur infrastucture is deployed in AWS us-east-1 region. Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is used for API endpoints. CNAME records were created in CloudFlare DNS to point to ELB instance. TestWe used Datadog Synthetic Monitoring to test our endpoints. Synthetics Monitoring hits an endpoint periodically