Here comes the last part of the series—making Ruby on Rails applications work with RDS Proxy.

The story of facing the giant - a migration of 11 TB database to AWS RDS

Last time, we got familiar with the main concepts of Event Sourcing and reviewed the cons and pros of this approach. Let's see it in practice now.

Learn about the massive challenges of using AWS DMS we experienced and how we prevailed in the end.

An intro to our AWS RDS migration story and the spectacular success we achieved with a couple of challenges on the way.

In the previous blog post, I promised we would introduce something special this time. So here we go - meet almighty Dionysus, who knows how to make the most of Kafka.

In a galaxy far, far away, enter the saga of CQRS and event sourcing, where data updates unfold like an epic space opera. Jokes away, let’s see what are those.

Let's discuss how we use Kafka in Smily, how we got where we are now, and how the overall architecture has evolved over time.

Let's start with perhaps the most exciting piece of tech we use in Smily - Apache Kafka.

Let's examine the four primary ways services can be integrated and how they all play their part in our architecture in Smily (formerly BookingSync).

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