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· 3 min read
Noah Fischer

Logstash is one of the most popular log shipping product that can collect logs from multiple sources and can ship to multiple targets.

In this blogpost, we will ship logs to Upstash Kafka using Logstash. Then we will make simple analysis with Cloudflare Workers. In order to keep the post simple we will ship some sample words from a file but you can ship any logs using Logstash using its input plugins.

· 3 min read
Enes Akar

Kafka is a messaging and stream processing platform with many use cases. In this post we will talk about the use cases most relevant to web applications.

Website Activity Tracking

You can track your user’s behaviour on your website using Kafka. You send all types of activities (clicks, searches, scrolls, form submissions) to different Kafka topics. Once you have all activity data in your Kafka, you can consume data to process it for real-time monitoring, real-time processing, and loading to a data warehouse for advanced analytics.

· 5 min read
Enes Akar

In this post, we will create a waiting room for your Next.js application using Vercel Edge functions and Upstash Redis.

You can check the source code and the demo app.

Waiting Room?

The waiting room is useful when you want to limit the number of active visitors to your website so as not to overload your resources.

In our implementation, you will be able to set a maximum number of active visitors. There will two parameters to control the traffic:

  • Max website capacity: Max number of visitors in the website at the same time?
  • Max session timeout: Max number of seconds that a visitor can stay idle

· 4 min read
Enes Akar

In this post, we will write a simple application which will run on Fastly Compute@Edge. The application will access Upstash Redis to keep track of page views.

Motivation

Edge Computing is one of the most exciting trends in recent years. CDN services like Cloudflare and Fastly started to enable users to run their applications on their edge infrastructure. This helps developers to build globally distributed, high performance applications.

· 5 min read
Enes Akar

We are thrilled to announce Upstash Kafka today. Upstash Kafka is the first Serverless Kafka offering. With a pay-per-request model, you can have a fully managed Kafka cluster without paying hundreds of dollars. With the free tier, you can create a Kafka cluster in seconds and without entering your credit card. The Upstash team takes care of availability, maintenance, scaling, upgrades and all the other tedious stuff while you focus on your app.

Why Kafka?

When we first launched our Redis service, it quickly became popular in the serverless community. More than 8,000 databases have been created since February. This number is much higher than we expected when we first launched Upstash. We continue to improve our Redis service. But we also realized how great is the need for data solutions that fit into the new serverless world.

· 13 min read
Krutie Patel

If you ever had to build an app that tracks the application usage, restrict resources utilisation or fetch data from the cache to increase app performance, then you would know that Redis is the answer to these requirements! Redis is in-memory, key-value database. It is open source and it stands for Remote Dictionary Server.

In this article, we are going to discuss Upstash, Redis database and the recent beta release of Vue SSR framework, Nuxt 3. This is a beginner friendly article that explores Redis database, where we will build basic app that tracks page-visits of a Nuxt app.