Brian Mericle

Brian Mericle is an experienced software engineering leader and technology evangelist. His focus is on helping companies like Discount Tire, Choice Hotels, O’Reilly Media and Quicken Loans navigate through digital transformation. In his 20 year tenure as a software engineer and technical leader, he has designed, implemented and delivered many highly available and scalable distributed systems. Brian has a tremendous passion for solving complex problems through collaboration, teamwork and an extreme determination to do the right thing.

projects by Brian Mericle

Asynchronous Event Handling Using Microservices and Kafka

6 weeks · 5-7 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE

Included with a Manning Online subscription

catalog / Software Development

In this liveProject, you’ll use the Kafka distributed streaming data platform to help convert a legacy order fulfillment system to a sleek new asynchronous event-driven architecture. This architecture needs to deliver services that can scale and evolve independently, to speed up your clients eCommerce app. You’ll use the Go language to build a microservice, an event publisher, and multiple event consumers; and work with Kafka’s command-line tools to create, alter, and test topics.