Apache Kafka® Disaster Recovery | Confluent Best Practices
Sep 22, 2017Yeva Byzek

Summary
This post details Apache Kafka disaster recovery best practices, focusing on multi-region deployments. It introduces Confluent Cloud features like Cluster Linking and Schema Linking for building multi-region, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud deployments. It also highlights Confluent Replicator for managing cross-datacenter replication, timestamp preservation, preventing cyclic topic repetition, resetting consumer offsets, and centralized schema management. Architecture designs for multi-datacenter disaster recovery, including active-passive and active-active patterns, are discussed.
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