Mark Paluch

  • A first look at Redis Streams and how to use them with Java

    Redis Streams have made it into Redis’ unstable branch since the beginning of this year, and the first clients start with the adoption of Redis Streams APIs. That makes it an excellent time to take a look what Redis Streams provide and how you can use them from a client perspective.

  • Redis Client Lettuce 5 GA released

    After a 13 months development phase and 208 solved tickets, it is my pleasure to announce general availability of Lettuce 5.0. This is a major release coming with several breaking changes and new interesting features and Java 9 compatibility. Get the release from Maven Central <dependency> <groupId>io.lettuce</groupId> <artifactId>lettuce-core</artifactId> <version>5.0.0.RELEASE</version> </dependency> or download the release bundle…

  • Conferences

    My upcoming events Oct 8th 2019 SpringOne Platform Building event-driven Java applications using Redis Streams Past events June 24th 2019 Devoxx PL Reactive Relational Database Connectivity June 6th 2019 JUG Munich Reactive Relational Database Connectivity May 23 2019 Spring Meetup Paris Reactive Relational Database Connectivity May 14 2019 Java User Group Sevillia Reactive Relational Database…

  • logstash-gelf 1.11.1 released

    I released today logstash-gelf 1.11.1. This release fixes a bunch of bugs and brings minor enhancements.

  • Lettuce is now lettuce.io

    Lettuce is now lettuce.io

    The Lettuce driver project graduates after three years now to a top-level project. It has been three years now since I took over the Lettuce driver project whereas I wanted initially just fix a bug – so to say scratch my own itch I had in an other project. I published Lettuce under biz.paluch.redis:lettuce in…

  • Heckenlights plays this season the last time

    Heckenlights is an interactive Christmas lights installation that can be controlled online by just visiting heckenlights.org. Heckenlights consists of over 3000 LED lights that are controlled via MIDI in 12 tracks. Each MIDI note switches the lights on and off. It all started in 2012 with the idea to control a Relay with MIDI and…

  • Command Interfaces: Approaching Redis with dynamic APIs in Java

    Redis is a data store supporting over 190 documented commands and over 450 command permutations. The community supports actively Redis development; each major Redis release comes with new commands. This year Redis was opened up for 3rd party vendors to develop modules that extend Redis functionality. Command growth and keeping track with upcoming modules are…

  • Redis Client lettuce 4.2.2.Final released

    I just released lettuce 4.2.2.Final. This is a bugfix release that fixes several issues. Updating is recommended for setups with frequent reconnects or frequent cluster topology changes during runtime.

  • Reusable GZIP Streams

    This post explains the use of a pooled GZIP OutputStream. The initial motivation were performance measurements of the GZIP’ing inside of logstash-gelf.

  • Managing Secrets with Vault

    Passwords, API keys and confidential data fall into the category of secrets. Storing secrets the secure way is a challenge with limiting access and a true secure storage. Let’s take a look at Hashicorp Vault and how you can use it to store and access secrets.