DevOps

How Rack Awareness in Amazon MSK Saved $36K/Year for a Leading AdTech Company

Introduction Building and deploying applications that use Apache Kafka for real-time data processing is made simple with Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka), a fully managed service by AWS. Rack awareness is one overlooked configuration change that can greatly increase fault tolerance and cost effectiveness, even though MSK...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: ApacheKafka
04-Jun-2025

Java/JVM

Consumer Rebalancing in Kafka- An Overview

Introduction Apache Kafka is a distributed system consisting of servers and clients that communicate via a high-performance TCP network protocol. We have components generating events (Producers) and components that consume those events (Consumers). Consumers label themselves with a consumer group name so that each record published on a...

by Honey Arora
Tag: ApacheKafka
09-Nov-2023