In general a lambda expression is an anonymous function, which means for some combination of inputs, there is a specific output. In the context of Java, a lambda expression is a kind of anonymous method with a more compact constructor syntax. Lambdas in Java are first class citizens, and can be passed as method parameters
Tags in Git are a way to bookmark specific commits. This is often done to indicate different versions or releases of a project. There is no straight forward way to checkout a tag in Git. But you can checkout the specific commit associated with a tag that into a new branch. This will give you
When working with Apache Kafka you might want to write data from a Kafka topic to a local text file. This is actually very easy to do with Kafka Connect. Kafka Connect is a framework that provides scalable and reliable streaming of data to and from Apache Kafka. With Kafka Connect, writing a topic’s content
When working with Kafka you might need to write data from a local file to a Kafka topic. This is actually very easy to do with Kafka Connect. Kafka Connect is a framework that provides scalable and reliable streaming of data to and from Apache Kafka. With Kafka Connect, writing a file’s content to a
Tags in Git are a way to bookmark specific commits. This is often done to indicate different versions or releases of a project. When pushing to a remote repository tags are not included by default. To push a tag to the remote repository use: git push origin <tag name> To push all local tags to
What is Linux sort? sort is a very useful command line utility used to sort the lines of a file or input stream. sort can be used to sort input by entire lines, single columns, or different column ranges in a variety of ways. Sorting by Entire Lines The default behavior of the sort command
When working with Kafka you might find yourself using the kafka-console-producer (kafka-console-producer.sh). The kafka-console-producer is a program included with Kafka that creates messages from command line input (STDIN). However, simply sending lines of text will result in messages with null keys. In order to send messages with both keys and values you must set the
Apache Kafka is a fault tolerant publish-subscribe streaming platform that lets you process streams of records as they occur. If you haven’t installed Kafka yet, see our Kafka Quickstart Tutorial to get up and running quickly. In this post we will talk about creating a simple Kafka consumer in Java. Kafka Consumer Code The example
Sometimes when working with JSON on the command line, it is helpful to know how many elements exist in a JSON array. Fortunately this is easy to do with jq. jq is a lightweight, easy to use, command line JSON processor. *More information about jq can be found at https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/. Counting Array Elements in single
Sometimes when working with JSON on the command line, it is helpful to know how many fields exist in each document. Fortunately this is easy to do with jq. jq is a lightweight, easy to use, command line JSON processor. Counting Fields in single JSON String If you want to test individual JSON strings, you