Morning

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Morning morning

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Morning

tense music

(Baking kannelbullar from scratch, keep your fingers crossed you guys)

what's kannelbullar?

Cinnamon buns, Swedish, like in Ikea ;)

Total:
2 hrs 37 mins
Prep:
2 hrs 30 mins
Cook:
7 mins

We'll all find out soon

That's scary

wow that's' alot of prep

and not alot of baking

Dough rising

Mostly waiting really

That's basically cook

Interesting though, my recipe calls for longer baking time, probably for the glazing to set

you've put windows in?

No, but now that you say that, I notice that it’s growing at the same rate as the new builds outside so who knows ;)

are they ready yet?

New builds? Nah, they’re British developers, raise the building in months and wait years to put the roof in ;)

oh because that way the planning permission is not gonna get withdrawn

and you can just sit on them

yep they did that all over manchester

but if they are rising at the rate as your cinamonn buns

put up shells when the financial crisis happened and then let them rust

that sound quite fast to me

finished them in 2015/16

now they're doing similar pre brexit

well funding probably dried up

as did customers able to achieve a mortgage

so the only people with any money are the russian gangsters

yeah there's a lot of land banking in mcr now I think

getting increasingly like london in that respect

yeah, something about not having to pay tax either

doesn’t count as a finished build until you top it

rrrrright. I think I’ve just found the original Ikea instructions http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2010/10/01/cooking-book-without-instructions/

Oh is that valid in the UK too?

I know in Cyprus you often see houses with metal rods sticking out the roof, which means the building, despite being a complete house that can be lived in, counts as 'unfinished' because they were 'intending to put on another floor' so there's some tax they can avoid paying

Of course they also then can put on another floor if a grandparent or child wants to live upstairs

Final verdict: nice morning buns, much less sweet than Ikea ones (but then I didn’t sugar-glaze them)

I don’t think I’m UK you can live in an unfinished house, it’s more of a cash flow management (?) trick

Morning.

Morning All!

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Back in Scotland - noticing that I feel a LOT more relaxed suddenly.

😉

@carr0t - That was__ a standard tax dodge all over Greece, but I expect that loophole has been closed quite convincingly in the last 4-5 years with all the Greek / EU imposed Austerity and bail-out stuff.

Anyone out there got a solid recommendation vis a vis development setup for Kafka? I am thinking Docker, and I've figured out that I need(?) a Zookeeper instance as well as a Kafka instance... Do I just create a Docker Group..?

For dev Docker Compose would be your friend here.

I found it was surprisingly janky on OSX with compose, took some messing around with hosts

whereas the apache tarball just runs

but @jasonbell is the expert here 🙂

never had an issue personally but there you are.

to be honest @alex.lynham is right, straight tar ball works well too.

which image were you using?

Can't remember, it's been a while now.

ah fp

And those projects are all deleted as I'm not with that crew anymore.

avast

yon salty seadog be nothing but a landlubber

lol

Need to get my Kafka chops up and running again. KSQL has changed the landscape on a few things (basically abstractions of streaming API apps) and I've got two talks between now and the end of the year to do.

I've only used it for POCs so far tbh, ended up going with kinesis on the actual things I had to ship

I'm running on Arch, not MacOS - I will look and see if there's a Pacman solution, but I do like the way in which running Docker containers for things like Kafka makes cleanup "easy"

is there a reason you specifically want to use kafka and not kinesis?

@alex.lynham - No particular reason, just that the idea behind the choice was couched in terms of using Kafka

I thought that Kinesis is / was a different beast to Kafka - for one thing I did not realise that Kinesis preserved order, in the way that Kafka does.

kafka is much more configurable but you can achieve similar things

If they have feature parity then I could not care less, but order-maintenance is pretty important in this use-case.

I had to design a data arch recently and went kinesis over kafka mostly due to lack of platform/maintenance cost

@maleghast I just ran kafka on my linux laptop, worked just fine with multiple brokers. Install zookeeper, install kafka, start zookeeper, start brokers, write code 🙂

@jr0cket - OK, cool 🙂

Thx

that's what I did fwiw ^

i do the same as @jr0cket @maleghast - it just worked straight out of the box

use containers for test and prod, if your app gets that far

depending on the scale of your kafka setup

tbh when I was designing an architecture around kafka/kinesis my kafka assumption was it'd run on an EC2 instance as the k8s story is more complex

at my last role I was designing Kafka based on rolling it out to OpenShift (RedHat Docker/Kubernetes platform), the main infrastructural challenge was persistent storage available, as what was provided internally may not have had the performance we needed.

interesting

how did you resolve that in the end?

New laptop sticker day! Woop

those don't look official 😮

Has anyone used Phacility & it's toolkit at all? interested to hear about it.

Phacility?

https://phacility.com/phabricator/

not used, but heard good things about that tool in particular when the discussion around github buyout happened

Phabricator is written in PHP

So?

Not everything that’s written in PHP looks (internally) like Wordpress.

(That said, the codebase looks massive and old-fashioned in places.)

(But then you’d get the same problem with old C++ or Java code)

As a recent returnee to Java, I can attest that even new Java code looks massive and old-fashioned.

Just watching and seething........ 🙂

well... that was a most disappointing week I have to say...

I had one story to finish... originally estimated at 2 days... took over 2 weeks in the end 😞

mostly spend trying to shoe-horn some extra functionality into a data model that doesn't quite fit...

and fighting Java/Hybernate and JS/React

i seem to remember fighting with hibernate goes hand in hand with using hibernate @thomas 🙂

it seems to be the case... I am not convinced about the whole thing. it is certainly easy... (at first) but you have to know an awful lot about it operates and what it does with standard settings and what you need to tell it explicitly. (part of that could be the JPA standard though).

part of my problems this week were part of Cascading changes to other entities.

@mccraigmccraig Hibernate calls are like session.isAlive().didSacrificeToAGod().itsTuesday().iveGotYellowPantsOn().getConnection(); 🙂

ahh... that is why my code worked on Tuesday last week... and hasn't since.

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Morning 🙂

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plain, simple SQL queries...