Apache Kafka is a great solution for handling real-time data feeds. Learn more about tuning Kafka to meet your high performance needs in this great video.
Here's a look at security permissions that are applicable to JPA entities, controlling attributes like reading, deletion, updating, and assignment of entities.
Performance maintenance is essential, and accordingly performance testing is hugely necessary. The performance testing space continues to evolve however, in this day of continuous delivery and integration. Here's an overview of the 80:20 rule as applied to performance testing, from a fear of testing to testing complex scenarios.
Parse is shutting down and will be missed by many. However, their resources for running an open sourced Parse backend on your own server, and migration info sets an example for other services on how to properly shut down.
Redis server provides many popular data structures like map, list, set... In practice, however, you may face more complicated requirements, such as storing several values per key, for example. The best practice for that would be implementing the Multimap.