Ken Stevens

Ken Stevens, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Smile Digital Health, writes on HAPI FHIR EMPI, Kafka integration testing, and Spring development.

Blog Post by Ken Stevens

Aug 14, 2020, 2:02:00 AM4 min read

Announcing HAPI FHIR EMPI

This year the HAPI FHIR team prioritized developing an Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI), within HAPI-FHIR. Our hope is that HAPI FHIR EMPI ...

Jun 30, 2020, 12:00:00 AM3 min read

Kafka Integration Testing: Partition Assignment

Integration Testing with Kafka can be really challenging. There are so many moving parts and so much concurrency that it’s easy to ...

Dec 5, 2019, 12:00:00 AM3 min read

The Pros and Cons of Spring SmartLifecycle

When I integrated Kafka with Smile Digital Health earlier this year, I occasionally saw errors on shutdown. When I googled the error message, a ...