Kafka

Introduction When building event-driven architectures with AWS Lambda and Apache Kafka, one of the most critical yet often misunderstood components is offset management especially for event source mapping when you use lambda functions. Many developers wonder: Do I need to manage Kafka offsets manually? or What happens when my consumer group’s offsets expire? In this blog post, we’ll demystify how AWS Lambda’s Event Source Mapping handles Kafka offsets automatically and what you actually need to know as a developer....

Introduction Welcome, readers! 📖 In this post, we’ll explore the idea of event source mapping in AWS, with a focus on its implementation and functionality. We’ll zoom-in 🔍 how automatic scaling works and examine the process of consuming messages from Kafka event sources. Using Lambda to consume records from Kafka Processing streaming data with traditional server-based technologies and Kafka consumers written in Scala can often introduce unnecessary overhead for simple tasks like creating custom sink consumers to save or delete data based on specific rules....