AWS: Lambda Event Source Mapping with Confluent Kafka
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....