Dan Edwards

It's really difficult to follow most of the times because the code changes in the videos are so quick and it's hard to concentrate on both the audio and what's happening on screen. I have to pause every two seconds if I want to code along with the course and understand what's being said at the same time. Then, when a chapter changes, the code base seems to be different. E.g. when starting chapter 11, the package "dev.lydtech.dispatch" only contained the folder "messages", and all other code was gone. Instead, the sub-package "tracking" was edited. I tried to replicate the code from git, adding it to my project, but then ran into numerous compile errors because of duplicate method names. I would have liked to have some sort of guideline what the starting situation for the code should have been, if one does not just checkout the code branches from git, but wants to build the project from the ground up by themselves. I spent hours of fixing problems to get back to the state where the course was. Frustrating.
- Review by Sascha Bang on Introduction to Kafka with Spring Boot