Understanding Kafka with Factorio
When I saw this title, I first thought it was about understanding the cockroach-like aliens in Factorio, but it is actually about queuing and congestion and parallel processing with conveyor belts and factories!<p>With the caveat that Factorio is EXTREMELY addictive, properly described as "programmer crack", here are some other Factorio related discussions:<p>Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything (factorio.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266471" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266471</a><p><a href="http://www.factorio.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.factorio.com/</a><p>"This game is like crack for programmers." -kentonv (Tech lead for Cloudflare Workers, author of Sandstorm.io, Cap'n Proto)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11269098" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11269098</a><p>Raycasting engine in Factorio game – Facto-RayO v1.0 [video] (youtube.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19878688" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19878688</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lVAFcDX4eM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lVAFcDX4eM</a><p>Factorio to talk about horizontal scaling of software services (medium.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095271" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095271</a><p><a href="https://medium.com/@chrisfauerbach/gamification-of-horizontal-scaling-4a6c394c9e75" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@chrisfauerbach/gamification-of-horizonta...</a><p>Mapping Factorio with Leaflet (cloudflare.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185058" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185058</a><p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/mapping-factorio-with-leaflet/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/mapping-factorio-with-leaflet/</a>