Marcin Kuthan

Big data engineer leading @allegro real-time, highly scalable and fault-tolerant data ingestion platform. It processes a few billion events every day with e2e latency below one minute.

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Books 5
Conferences 2

Books

The Go programming language

October 8, 2022 3 minute read

Go is a modern programming language designed at Google to improve developer productivity. But how to improve productivity? By limiting engineers’ power and flexibility 😂

Software Engineering at Google – book review

September 22, 2022 9 minute read

Recently I’ve read “Software Engineering at Google” curated by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright.

Mastering Node.js – book review

August 20, 2014 4 minute read

Overview

Release It! – book review

June 21, 2014 7 minute read

Recently I read excellent book Release It! written by Michael Nygard. The book is 7 years old and I don’t know how I could miss the book until now.

Conferences

Last week I virtually attended Apache Beam Summit 2022 held in Austin, Texas. The event concentrates around Apache Beam and the runners like Dataflow, Flink, Spark or Samza. Below you can find my overall impression of the conference and notes from several interesting sessions. If some aspect was particularly appeal...

Apache BigData Europe 2016

November 18, 2016 10 minute read

Last week I attended Apache Big Data Europe held in Sevilla, Spain. The event concentrates around big data projects under Apache Foundation umbrella. Below you can find my overall impression on the conference and notes from several interesting sessions. The notes are presented as short checklists, if some aspect w...