Achieving Same Day Delivery with Confluent Data Streaming

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This post details a specific customer's migration from self-managed Kafka on Azure HDInsight to Confluent Cloud to enable same-day delivery. It highlights the challenges of managing Kafka in HDInsight, including lack of expertise, missed upgrades, frequent pipeline failures, limited connector availability, and no stream processing capabilities. The solution implemented uses Confluent Cloud's managed service, multi-AZ dedicated clusters with VNET peering, pre-built connectors (Debezium, JDBC Sink), and Schema Registry. The company also utilized the .NET client library. The outcome is improved reliability, reduced maintenance, and increased innovation capacity.