Kafka Consumer Lag Keeps Growing Even After Scaling Consumers
You added more consumer pods. Lag is still going up. The bottleneck is almost never "not enough consumers" — it is partition count, poison messages, or commit-offset drift.
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Postgres Autovacuum Stalled by a Long-Running Transaction
Table bloat grows, queries get slower, and pg_stat_progress_vacuum shows nothing running. A single forgotten transaction is holding back the entire vacuum horizon.