Architecture: Kafka Active-Active with Confluent Bidirectional Cluster Linking

Your Confluent Cluster Linking DR setup is solid. Two clusters, one link, replication lag under five seconds. Then your platform team asks a reasonable question: the DR cluster is sitting idle, your producers in the secondary region are paying cross-regional latency on every write, and a failover still involves a manual promotion step. Can both clusters carry live traffic simultaneously? Can a regional outage become a non-event rather than an in… Read More