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What is WAL - Write Ahead Log?
WAL is a mechanism for ensuring data durability, consistency, and crashârecovery in databases by writing changes to a log before applying them to onâdisk files.
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When Indexing Doesn't Help: Issues with RDS Performance
While indexing can speed up queries, in cases like high write rates, lowâcardinality or skewed columns, and large text fields it may provide little benefit or even slow down performance.
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Monitoring Kafka Consumers and Publishers: Best Practices
Covers key Kafka metricsâconsumer lag, throughput, error rates, endâtoâend latency, and broker healthâand recommends using builtâin tools or platforms like Prometheus/Grafana for realâtime monitoring.
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