Stella Cotton

This blog post is adapted from a talk given by Stella Cotton at RailsConf 2018 titled “So You’ve Got Yourself a Kafka.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rzl4O1oaVy8 In recent years, designing software as a collection of services, rather than a single, monolithic codebase, has become a popular way to build applications. In this post, we’ll learn the basics of Kafka and how its event-driven process can be used to power your Rails services. We’ll also talk about practical considerations and operational challenges that your event-driven Rails services might face around monitoring and scaling. What is Kafka? Suppose you want to know more information about…