There are several steps involved in implementing a data pipeline that integrates Apache Kafka with AWS RDS and uses AWS Lambda and API Gateway to feed data into a web application. Here is a high-level overview of how to architect this solution:
1. Set Up Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that is capable of handling trillions of events a day. To set up Kafka, you can either install it on an EC2 instance or use Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK), which is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.