Scalable and Reliable Kafka Ingestion from Rails

A key aspect of fleet management is real-time location tracking of all the entities in your fleet (these entities can be trucks, drivers, or trailers). To this end, KeepTruckin introduced <a href="https://keeptruckin.com/gps-tracking" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Fleet View</a> last year, a new experience for fleet managers, which displays a single, unified, real-time view of all the entities of a fleet on a map. We achieve this real-time location tracking of entities by processing the GPS coordinates and telemetry data that we receive from the vehicles and the Vehicle Gateways (VG) attached to the vehicles. In this blog, we share the challenges and decisions we faced in producing data to Kafka from Ruby-on-Rails. <a href="https://medium.com/motive-eng/scalable-and-reliable-kafka-ingestion-from-rails-b8a50c3f5e7b">Website</a>