Recently I was working on migrating data from RDS for PostgreSQL table in one account to DynamoDB in another AWS account in the same region. Although the table was simple with 6 columns and one primary key, it had about 10 million records. I initially tried using AWS DMS, but…

I recently passed the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam with an 88% score. I started my preparation a month ago by practicing running k8s commands locally on minikube. Although I was familiar with basic concepts like pods, clusters, deployments, etc., I was not comfortable creating the yaml file from…

Apache Kafka has been gaining so much popularity these past few years due to its highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant publish-subscribe architecture. It is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects, which was initially developed by LinkedIn in 2010 and is now being used by thousands of organizations. Although this post…

A few years ago, I was working on a web application that I was heavily invested in and was super excited for it to go live. After weeks of pushing new features, we were finally ready to launch this bad boy. We wrote a bunch of unit and integration tests…