Confluent’s Kora Engine awarded ‘Best Industry Paper’ at VLDB

This post details the Kora Engine, Confluent's cloud-native event streaming platform, which powers Confluent Cloud. It highlights Kora's architecture designed for reliability, elasticity, and cost-efficiency, including its cellular architecture for multi-tenancy, serverless abstraction, self-balancing clusters, automatic failure mitigation for high availability, and seamless replication/backup using object storage. The post also mentions the award received at VLDB 2023 for the Kora paper.