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!With the caveat that Factorio is EXTREMELY addictive, properly described as "programmer crack", here are some other Factorio related discussions:Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything (factorio.com)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266471http://www.factorio.com/"This game is like crack for programmers." -kentonv (Tech lead for Cloudflare Workers, author of Sandstorm.io, Cap'n Proto)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11269098Raycasting engine in Factorio game – Facto-RayO v1.0 [video] (youtube.com)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19878688https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lVAFcDX4eMFactorio to talk about horizontal scaling of software services (medium.com)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095271https://medium.com/@chrisfauerbach/gamification-of-horizonta...Mapping Factorio with Leaflet (cloudflare.com)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185058https://blog.cloudflare.com/mapping-factorio-with-leaflet/