Ankit Chawla on Fission

Autoscaling Serverless Functions with Custom Metrics

Wed, 11 May 2022 14:43:46 +0530

Autoscaling is one of the key features of Kubernetes because of its capability to scale up or down according to the load. This is pretty useful as optimizes cost with minimum human intervention. Autoscaling adjusts your applications and resources based on the rise and fall in the demand.

In the earlier versions of Fission, new deploy functions depended only on targetCPU metric for scaling. But what if you want the functions to scale based on some third party software’s metrics?

Serverless Kafka Consumer for Confluent Cloud

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:21:01 +0530

Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native service for Apache Kafka. Managed Kafka offering helps you focus on connecting and processing data, anywhere you need it. You avoid hassle of infrastructure management.

In this blog post, we will connect with Kafka cluster hosted in Confluent Cloud using Fission Keda Kafka Connector with SASL SSL. Using Kafka Connector, we receive the latest messages on our desired Kafka topics and process them with Fission functions.