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Why Confluent? The Largest Kafka Service in the World

Why Confluent? The Largest Kafka Service in the World

5/10/2023 · Nitin Muddana

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This post elaborates on Confluent Cloud's engineering for reliability, durability, scalability, and security, providing quantitative metrics and insights into operational capabilities. It highlights the management of over 30,000 Kafka clusters, 3 trillion messages written daily, and 7,700+ monitors for reliability. Durability is supported by checks on over 80 trillion messages daily. Scalability is emphasized with 10x elasticity and 2,500+ cluster expansions/contractions annually. Security is demonstrated through 2 billion daily RBAC authorization checks and adherence to industry compliance frameworks.

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