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....

August 4, 2024 · 5 min · 981 words · Vesko Vujovic