Hey, everyone :)

It is almost the end of GSoC 2017, we have one more week left. Here is a quick summary what we have achieved since the previous update:

* Dimitra has finished the implementation of custom object serialisers and deserialisers which gives us the ability to produce whatever we want to our topics.

* We completely removed JMS. We are using Kafka producers, consumers and streams instead of it. So we can say that our push message epic is completely implemented.

* We have our first Kafka Stream ready to be merged. See PR

* We set up our test environment which gives us the ability to test consumers and producers used in UPS. See PR

* The next check on our list is collecting stats for push messages using Apache Kafka.The basic idea is summarized in this epic AGPUSH-2111. We have already come up with some proposals - AGPUSH-2187 AGPUSH-2186 AGPUSH-2188. But we are open for new ideas. What information will be good to have in terms of stats for push messages? For example, how many push messages are sent per application? per OS? in some interval of time? Glad to hear what you think.

* Also stress testing of current Kafka implementation is good to be done if enough time available.

For more information, you can take a look at our dashboard here.

Thanks for the support and the help. Feedback is always appreciated.

Polina & Dimitra