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October 22, 2021

Benchmarking AWS Graviton2 and gp3 Support for Apache Kafka

With the release of AWS’s Graviton2 (ARM) instances and gp3 disks, I immediately wanted to explore the potential opportunity for anyone using Apache Kafka. My team and I embarked on a journey to understand the changes required for Kafka users to be able to provision AWS Graviton2 instances paired with gp3 disks.

Previously we’d only used Java 11 (OpenJDK) to run the Kafka service on x86 instances. As part of this change, we also shifted our internal environment to use Amazon Corretto. Amazon Corretto is used internally by AWS; it has built-in performance enhancements, security fixes, and is compatible with Java SE standards. Furthermore, Amazon Corretto reportedly has a performance benefit over OpenJDK distributions when operating in ARM architecture especially for network-intensive applications, of which Kafka is one.

May 14, 2019

Awesome Demos Roundup #4

These past weeks have been filled with interesting experiments: code goodies from space, a distorted font generator and fantastic WebGL works are some of the highlights.

We hope you enjoy this compilation!

Solar CSSystem

ToneJS + canvas-sketch

Animated grid

Marine life

Woven sound

Only CSS: STARFOX Arwing Drone

Mouse grayscale WebGL displacement shader

Only CSS: 3D Scan

Direction aware hover effect

Melt

Offf

Rushing rapid in a forest by Three.js

Musical Bubble Sort (CPC Bubble Sort)

Line Drawing

Drag and Juuump!! and drop

Useless Machine

Mandala-3D

gl22

Motion detection with camera feed

Sun & Earth

enFont Terrible

Canvas Cloud

Rocket Through Space

Awesome Demos Roundup #4 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops.

April 15, 2019

Awesome Demos Roundup #3

For this third Awesome Demos Roundup we’ve collected some mesmerizing animations and artful experiments. Among them are some great ideas that will get you thinking “how was it done?” and that will make you wanna tinker with the variables. Dive in and get some inspiration for your next side project.

Enjoy!

Magnet

Particles Field

Art of Noise #6

Potential Flow

The Cube

GLSL: Looping simplex noise

React App

CSS Grid: Floor Plan

Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing On using WebGL1

Bach SVG Music Animation

Lumina

Art of Noise #8

The Plastic Ocean

Model transitions

Multiscale Turing Patterns

Magical Light Tunnel

Naughts and Crosses 3

Alien Invasion by Gal Shir : Web Animation by Kono

GRASS

Unicode art gallery – Unicode art gallery

Course Clear! (Splitting.js Demo)

Floating heart

Nails

Whirling

GLSL: Blinn-phong shading

Chasing

Previous Roundups

Awesome Demos Roundup #1

Awesome Demos Roundup #2

Awesome Demos Roundup #3 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops.

March 29, 2019

Memory Usage of OpenWhisk Functions

Last week Red Hat introduced the open source framework Quarkus which promises fast boot times and low memory usages. This makes Quarkus interesting for Java workloads running as serverless functions.

I've done a little experiment to compare how much memory functions require which run on Apache OpenWhisk and have been implemented with Java and JavaScript.

March 13, 2019

Awesome Demos Roundup #2

In our second Awesome Demos Roundup we are featuring some great experiments including pure CSS goodness and WebGL wonders. Play evolution with Matthew Main’s “Kiss The Sky” or swing the racket in Jon Slater’s “CSS Only Tennis Game”. But above all, we hope you get inspired with this little selection.

Enjoy!

Morphed Sphere

Shooting Star

Bubbles (CodePen Circles Challenge)

Randomly generated Pure CSS menu icons w/ markup and SCSS

Blob study

Loader turbulence

Particles

Check out this tweet.

Blobby hill

Portal

Our new land [SVG]

Polygon Surface

WebGL Wonderland #5

Kiss The Sky

WebGL Wonderland #7

Displacement Scroll

Trippy polygons

CurveBall

CSS Scroll Snap: How Do I Look In This?

Waterfall

Physarum #5

View the Github repo.

CSS Only Tennis Game

Awesome Demos Roundup #2 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops.

February 15, 2019

Awesome Demos Roundup #1

If you read our Collective, you know that we usually add some interesting demos to every issue. In this new series we want to gather and showcase the most original demos and experiments from around the web. It’s a great way to see what exciting new technologies are emerging and how they can be put to use. We hope you find this interesting and inspiring! Enjoy!

Twintail

Birthday Pure CSS Pen

Paint on Mouse Move

All Gone (No Escape)

Web A Skeb

2019 – with love from Mazarine

Infinite SVG Triangle Fusion

Coalesce 12 – Phosphorescence 6

CSS Grid: Train Ticket

Double exposure depth experiment

Layered Water

Cycle #2, pure CSS tetrahedron

Volume Controlled Variable Fonts!!!!

Animated Boxes (three.js + anime.js)

Interactive Cube

WebAudio Synth

Playing with sound and three.js

Interactive 3D ASCII scenes

Third Attempt at a Fire Shader

Bubble Toggle

Oddity Iteration n°2

rymd

Also, check out rymdkrig and find the source code here

Liquify your SVGs!

Solar System 3D Animation (Pure CSS)

CSS (on hover) animated SVG icons

#CodepenChallenge Canvas Times Tables (Circles)

SVG Filters are 💕

Rainbow Tunnel

Pure CSS Still Life – Water and Lemons

MIDI CITY 2000

Awesome Demos Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops.

December 27, 2018

Awesome Demos from 2018

Today we’d like to share a collection of our favorite demos and experiments from 2018. This is just a small number compared to all the fantastic stuff that was made and shared in 2018, but we hope you enjoy this little selection of our favorite picks.

Please note that a lot of these demos are experimental and will require a modern browser to work.