Is MCP a Security Nightmare?: A look into MCP Authorization with OAuth2
Exploring MCP's security and how it uses modern OAuth2 workflows and adjacent RFCs to enhance security and authorization.
Moncef Abboud
Exploring Kafka Streams Internals
A Look Under the Hood of Kafka Streams
Taking a Look at Database Disk, Memory, and Concurrency Management
Buffer Pools, transactions, concurrency management and all that good stuff.
Meta MCP: Chaining Tools via Prompt-Driven Arguments
This post explores the concept of an MCP tool that can chain multiple tools within a single request, where the arguments for each tool can be dynamically generated using prompts based on the output...
Behind Sending Millions of Messages Per Second: A Look Under the Hood of Kafka Producer
Exploring the code behind the Kafka Producer client.
Gossip and Consensus: Using Serf and Raft to Build a Kafka-esque System
We play with Serf and Raft to implement cluster mode for Monkafka.
How Are Images REALLY Stored?
Learning about image formats.
Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms
Dissecting various compression algorithms.
MonKafka: Building a Kafka Broker from Scratch
An attempt to implement a basic Kafka broker.
Exploring Apache Kafka Internals and Codebase
Trying to dig into the Apache Kafka codebase and make some sense of it.