RKRithwik Kumar Nagulapatiinrithwikn.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 7 min readBeating the 7-Day Cluster TTL: How I Built a Graceful Shutdown Watchdog for a Kafka Streaming PipelineIt started with a cost conversation My manager flagged the VMware costs on our streaming pipeline. Two machines running 24/7 — two Kafka consumers and a Bootstrap application, always on, whether traff00
RKRithwik Kumar Nagulapatiinrithwikn.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 7 min readHow I Cut Infrastructure Costs by Building an Auto-Shutdown Mechanism for a Long-Running Java Batch Pipeline on an Ephemeral ClusterIt started with a cost conversation So my manager pulled me aside one day. Pretty direct conversation, infrastructure costs for our batch pipeline were too high, and he needed me to do something about00
