Best of ComputingJanuary 2023

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    You Want Modules, Not Microservices

    Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it's time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what's going on. The idea of creating and maintaining small, independent "chunks" of code and data, versioned apart from one another to enable a larger integration of the system.

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    Hardware is fun again

    Ever since Apple's M1 premiered, it seems the floodgates to interesting and large improvements have opened up. The generational jumps are happening more frequently, and the gains aren't measly any longer. As more companies start redoing the math on cloud, and pulling their applications off the rental racket, I think we'll see a resurgence.

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    Julia Programming Applications – What is Julia Used For?

    Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language. It combines the ease of use of scripting languages like Python with the speed and efficiency of compiled languages like C/C++. Julia has been gaining traction due to its speed, intuitive syntax, and ability to quickly and efficiently solve complex problems.

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    Performance of Kafka Consumers: 1 Billion messages

    Python and Go users can create a consumer in Python and Go. Consumers will search in Topic with the specific key I provided. They will create threads equal to the partition count of the Topic. They will run as parallelly. For instance, a topic has ten partitions, then I will create ten threads.

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    Apple unveils MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

    Apple unveils MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, Apple’s next-generation pro silicon that brings even more power-efficient performance and battery life to pro users. With up to 96GB of unified memory, creators can work on scenes so large that PC laptops can’t even run them.