I needed to implement a Spring Kafka listener with authentication using SCRAM via SASL. I couldn’t find an example configuration and had to piece it together, here is a short post about what I came up with.

This aims to explain what EBCDIC is and give an overview of how to use it. If you want to read about its history, have a look at the wiki page (also take a look at the joke section). This post also includes the command to convert EBCDIC Cobol to ASCII.

This page offers a download to a Max OS X version of the Dvorak keyboard layout with UK punctuation.

This post aims to teach the basic concepts of Javascript promises, how they work and some best practices.

I created this post because I felt the Dvorak keyboard deserved its own dedicated resource.