How Michelin Cut Kafka Costs by 35% Using Confluent

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This post details Michelin's successful migration from self-managed on-prem Kafka to Confluent Cloud, achieving a 35% cost reduction. It elaborates on the operational burden of self-managing Kafka, the scaling challenges encountered, and the benefits of a managed service for reliability and faster time-to-market. The migration allowed Michelin to reallocate dedicated Kafka teams to innovation and higher-value activities, improving inventory management and customer experience.