This post was cowritten with Babu Srinivasan and Robert Walters from MongoDB. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed,...
Today, many companies are building real-time applications to improve their customer experience and get immediate insights from their data before it loses its value....
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) runs Apache Kafka clusters for you in the cloud. Although using cloud services means you don’t...
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You can use Apache Kafka to run your streaming workloads. Kafka provides resiliency to failures and protects your data out of the box by replicating data across the brokers of the cluster. This makes sure that the data in the cluster is durable. You can achieve your durability SLAs by changing the replication factor of […]
Apache Kafka is well known for its performance and tunability to optimize for various use cases. But sometimes it can be challenging to find the right infrastructure configuration that meets your specific performance requirements while minimizing the infrastructure cost. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Apache Kafka performance. We discuss strategies on how […]
During the recent years, there has been a shift from monolithic to the microservices architecture. The microservices architecture makes applications easier to scale and quicker to develop, enabling innovation and accelerating time to market for new features. However, this approach causes data to live in different silos, which makes it difficult to perform analytics. To […]
Today’s businesses face an unprecedented growth in the volume of data. A growing portion of the data is generated in real time by IoT devices, websites, business applications, and various other sources. Businesses need to process and analyze this data as soon as it arrives to make business decisions in real time. Amazon Managed Streaming […]
Data is being produced, streamed, and consumed at an immense rate, and that rate is projected to grow exponentially in the future. In particular, JSON is the most widely used data format across streaming technologies and workloads. As applications, websites, and machines increasingly adopt data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data […]
