Khasi not carsey!

It would be nice to have some (Web?) GUI for that, monitoring resource usage etc. Use Prometheus and Grafana, it will give you everything you need including alerting

In my 20 years of working in software development, a bachelor's degree and any further is a waste of time. The best coders I've worked with are musicians as well as coders. I work in an investment bank in the risk department, I've worked on a number of systems where the Quants (all with PhDs in maths or physics) developed a prototype in C++ and mocked when we said we'd build the real system in Java. However our systems in all of the projects were at least a magnitude faster than the Quant systems, not because Java is faster than C++, but because the development team knew how to code for performance. Coding is incredibly complicated, to be good, only experience pays.

Ho ho ho!

I have never, ever, heard those words used to describe BizTalk

If you think Kafka is like BizTalk, I suggest you look at the documentation / download it, it's nothing like it. It's a highly scalable, ultra-high throughput messaging system. The stream processing API is just a bolt on the side, but again is nothing like BizTalk. Kafka has been proved in production to handle 1.2 trillion messages per day, no way BizTalk can do that.

Total crap

City of London is not part of the UK, it has its own electoral system and its own government. Wrong! That police force answers to the City of London Corporation. No it doesn't! That police force is threatening the sovereignty of the UK and wider world. It isn't in anyway! So we need to take back the City of London from the corporate entity that controls it, and bring that police force back within the wider laws of the UK. You are a moron

JDBC

To all the posters here who seem to have no real idea about Java http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html I work in the City of London and although it is only a recent development many low latency systems are being written in Java, due to the faster time to market, the G1 GC and deterministic garbage collectors. You may be interested to know that the world's largest investment banks have most of their trading, risk and flow systems in Java so all these comments about Java being unstable, crap or slow just aren't true.

Can we clear this up once and for all, the newspaper in question is called The Times, not The London Times, or the Times of London. Other newspapers with the word Times in their name do so because they are named after The Times

This is due to a misunderstanding of Warp Drive. The Enterprise doesn't travel faster than light, it warps the space in front of it to compress it. The ship itself is travelling at sub light speed in a bubble of un-warped space.