Vietnamese Input on Arch Linux (Wayland/Hyprland)

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Overview Here is a quick tutorial to setup Vietnamese input in Hyprland. I strugged with bamboo and gave up. Luckily, there was a good alternative. First, install the following: Next, add the following to the hyprland config (~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf) Still in hyprland config, add: Now, in your terminal, type: Add Unikey from the left to the … Read more

Enable Colors For Logs With Logback Spring

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Overview Checking log without color is hard. Enable color for your log messages would make things a bit easier. I’ll show you how to do that with logback in spring. Configuration First of all, you need to create a file name logback-spring.xml under your resource folder. Here is my file: Here is my log configuration … Read more

Working With Kafka Topics & Messages

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Overview This post covers the fundamental, yet important operations that you or your applications interact with kafka. The main purpose of kafka, to me, is to delivery messages. We are dealing with messages handling in this post. Setup As I’ve setup a kafka instance in the previous post, I’m going to use it in this … Read more

Create a Kafka Cluster With Docker

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Overview In order to start working with kafka, we need a cluster. The easiest way is to use docker. You can also download the binary files and run if you prefer. This is just one in many options Docker-compose Here I have a simple setup with some extra services (kafka-connect) and redpanda (for a nice … Read more

Kafka's Architecture Fundamentals

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Overview Before working with Kafka, it’s important to understand its architecture. Terminologies Here are the most important concepts in Kafka Broker/server These are machines, containers that accepts requests to the clusters. A broker also holds data. Topics These are the virtual container of your messages. The publisher (the one that send messages) and the consumer … Read more