Category: Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

Content, such as breaking news or sports scores, requires updates in near-real-time. To stay up to date, you may be constantly refreshing your browser or mobile app. Building APIs to deliver this content at speed and scale can be challenging. In this post, I present an alternative to an API-based approach. I outline the concept […]

August 2023: Amazon MSK now offers a managed feature called multi-VPC private connectivity to simplify connectivity of your Kafka clients to your brokers. Refer this blog to learn more. This guest post presents patterns for accessing an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster across your AWS account or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]

In this blog post, we will show you how Amazon API Gateway can answer these questions as a component between your Amazon MSK cluster and your clients. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka that makes it easy to provision Kafka clusters with just a few clicks without the need to provision servers, manage storage, or configure Apache Zookeeper manually. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications.

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Most businesses generate data […]

This post describes how you can improve performance and reduce costs by offloading reporting workloads from an online transaction processing (OLTP) database to Amazon Athena and Amazon S3. The architecture described allows you to implement a reporting system and have an understanding of the data that you receive by being able to query it on arrival.