A tale of a clueless programmer trying to figure out how to use Fluent Bit’s “built-in” support to send messages serialized/encoded in Avro, a compact binary format that has types.

Today I am exploring how to create a copy of Kafka plugin on Fluent-Bit so that you can modify the plugin without affecting the original plugin. Don’t ask me why would anyone want to do that, it happens. I didn’t even know what Fluent-Bit and Kafka was till very recently and I happened to come across the need to duplicate the plugin to fiddle around with. Mainly to understand what is going on. Not an interesting topic but I haven’t written much blogs this year so this is the topic I chose to write. What is interesting about Fluent Bit is that you are supposed to write the plugins in C which was surprising when I heard this. Though you could probably choose to write the plugins in other languages like Go I assume.

This is a course review of MATH2000 - Multivariable Calculus and Fundamentals of Analysis taken at CarletonU in the fall of 2022 and winter 2023. The lectures were synchronous but with recorded lectures to accommodate those with COVID-19 or any other illness. This is a review of the first half of the course (the course is 8 months long, 1.0 credit). This blog post is a long one so feel free to skip and read only the course review.

Euler’s Identity has often been called the most beautiful equation in Mathematics. While I myself do not comprehend it’s beauty, the mere existence of:

• euler number e, the base of natural log
• i the imaginary/complex unit
• $\pi$ the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
• 1
• 0

Math has a lot of rules and hidden intricacies. From elementary or middle schools, students are taught not to ever divide by 0. While most students take this to heart, a common mistake students make is dividing by some function or variable that can be 0 in its domain. This error is not unique to students learning Math but also made by beginners in programming.

tldr: Auditing courses does not fullfill 4 courses per semester requirement for co-op and for student health insurance