Your logs are lying to you
16 Mar 2026Well, not intentionally.
If you need a primer on Apache Kafka, I recommend reading Kafka 101
What if you want to put a message in Kafka and want to consume it after some time, without stopping your consumer or polling and re-pushing again and again?
Sometimes, you might observe your program breaching all thresholds and taking up more memory than required. You might observe sawtooth patterns in your memory charts. This is a sign of classic Memory Leak, which eventually leads to OOM.
AWS Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. - Official Docs