Migrating IBM DB2 to Google Bigtable and achieving FIPS compliance encryption using Java custom encryption library

 This is about a project I undetook recently, the purpose was to migrate  large volume of on-prem db2 data to google bigtable using DataProc, a spark based solution on Google Cloud, a few things that are notable from the project:

1. I have to use SCALA to develop the solution due to the fact that the encryption libary was developed in Java and althoguh it has interoperativity to Python, it does have lot of limitation which stoped me from using Python... on the other hand, SCALA and JAVA just work together seamlessly.

2. for FIPS compliance, I have to use bouncecastle library, which introduces issues in managing dependencies, "dependency hell" as some named it, at then end I have to use mevan to manage dependencies and shade sbt due to the complexity.

3. I used hbase-spark connector for talking to bigtable, Since I am using spark 3, I have to complied the connector libaray manually, see https://github.com/apache/hbase-connectors/tree/master/spark 

(this project was done about a year ago)

Handling Large Messages With Apache Kafka

While working on handling large messages with Kafka, I came across a few useful reference articles, bookmarking here for anyone who needs them:

https://dzone.com/articles/processing-large-messages-with-apache-kafka

https://www.morling.dev/blog/single-message-transforms-swiss-army-knife-of-kafka-connect/

https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/08/07/apache-kafka-handling-large-messages-and-files-for-image-video-audio-processing/

https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/connectors/single-message-transforms.html#cc-single-message-transforms-limitations