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: AWSMSK
04-Jun-2025

DevOps

Driving Efficiency and Cost Reduction: Kafka Migration to AWS MSK for a Leading Advertising Firm

Introduction In the world of data management, companies seek to streamline operations and enhance scalability. One key journey involves migrating self-managed Apache Kafka clusters from AWS EC2 to Amazon MSK. We executed such a migration for a client with zero downtime, offering insights and strategies in this blog. Motivations Behind...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: AWSMSK
14-May-2024