Go's garbage collector


Go’s new [>= v1.5] garbage collector is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea first proposed by Dijkstra in 1978.

Garbage collection


Garbage collection is the process of freeing up memory space that is not being used.

Extensively monitoring spark-jobs with StatsD


This post is a continuation with Monitoring Spark jobs with Prometheus StatsD Exporter and Grafana

Exploring the /proc directory


The proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which provides an interface to kernel data structures. – linux man pages

Kafka 101


Kafka is a distributed, horizontally scalable, partitioned, fault-tolerant, replicated commit log service.