Elastic Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud - Project Metamorphosis

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This post introduces Project Metamorphosis, focusing on the 'Elasticity' trait. It details Confluent Cloud's move to a single usage-based billing model for all products, including Dedicated clusters, allowing dynamic provisioning and scaling. It also announces self-service expansion and automatic data balancing for Dedicated clusters. For on-prem, Confluent Platform will support automatic data balancing with Confluent Operator for Kubernetes. Contributions to Apache Kafka (KIP-500 and KIP-595) are highlighted to remove ZooKeeper dependency and enable scaling to millions of partitions.