Author: nikhil.kuria

#lifeinthetimeofcorona

#lifeinthetimeofcorona

Our team just completed three weeks of working fully remote and we will continue this for at least a few more weeks. This is unknown and strange territory. Our team is spread across two cities and we are used to having talks over a screen. But, this can’t be compared to a situation where the whole office starts working from home.

AWS Kinesis with Lambdas

AWS Kinesis with Lambdas

Late in 2017, our team started the journey to replicate some of our data stored in on-premise MySQL machines to AWS. This included over a billion records stored in multiple tables. The new system had to be responsive enough to transfer any new incoming data from the MySQL database to AWS with minimal latency.

The combination of AWS Kinesis with AWS Lambdas was a commonly used pattern. Here is what we learned, read more on the trivago tech blog