Vlog! Hermes overview
Overview of Hermes - Kafka-powered, enterprise-ready message broker
Hermes is a message broker that greatly simplifies communication between services using publish-subscribe pattern. It is HTTP-native, exposing REST endpoints for message publishing as well as pushing messages to subscribers REST endpoints. Under the hood, Apache Kafka is used.
More about Hermes:
https://hermes-pubsub.readthedocs.io
https://github.com/allegro/hermes
In this video, I will run Hermes locally and play with it to provide an overview of its functionality. This project has a lot of similarities to what I have been working on at my job, which is why it caught my attention.
I will also demonstrate how AI tools like Claude Code can help with understanding how solutions like Hermes work internally and how to easily play with them by quickly generating sample client code.
Grab some 🍿 and watch!
I will not be offended if your playback speed is close to 1.75 😅
Diagram from the video:
