Modernize Apps and Infrastructure with Anthos, Confluent, and Kafka

This post details the integration of Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud with Google Anthos to enable hybrid and multi-cloud application modernization. It explains how Anthos provides a consistent infrastructure layer across environments, while Confluent unifies data infrastructure on top of it, creating a hybrid data plane with Cluster Linking. The post also discusses refactoring applications into microservices using event-driven architectures and Kafka, and explores edge scenarios where Kafka can be deployed for local aggregation, processing, and resilient data ingestion, citing a manufacturing plant example.