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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS RDS Database Instance

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 Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Instead of managing servers, patching OS, and handling backups manually, AWS RDS takes care of the heavy lifting so you can focus on building applications and data pipelines. In this blog, we’ll walk through how to create an AWS RDS instance , key configuration choices, and best practices you should follow in real-world projects. What is AWS RDS? AWS RDS is a managed database service that supports popular relational engines such as: Amazon Aurora (MySQL / PostgreSQL compatible) MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB Oracle SQL Server With RDS, AWS manages: Database provisioning Automated backups Software patching High availability (Multi-AZ) Monitoring and scaling Prerequisites Before creating an RDS instance, make sure you have: An active AWS account Proper IAM permissions (RDS, EC2, VPC) A basic understanding of: ...
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How to Monitor Kafka-stream's Performance

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Kafka Streams API is a part of Kafka, it goes without saying that monitoring your application will require some monitoring of Kafka as well. Performance The consumer and producer performance is one of the fundamental performance concerns for a producer and consumer.   The Kafka data flow diagram What is lag For producers, we care mostly about how fast the producer is sending messages to the broker. Obviously, the higher the throughput, the better. For consumers, we’re also concerned with performance, or how fast we can read messages from a broker. we care about how much and how fast our producers can publish to a broker, and we simultaneously care about how quickly our consumers can read those messages from the broker. The difference between how fast the producers place records on the broker and when consumers read those messages is called consumer lag How to check consumer lag To check for consumer lag, Kafka provides a convenient command-line tool, kafka-consumer-groups.sh,...
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