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

Explained - Lambda Architecture

Lambda Architecture Learn about Lambda Architecture, a data-processing framework that combines batch and real-time processing to efficiently handle massive data streams, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and accuracy in data systems. Read More

Explained - Key differences between Kafka and AMQP

Understand the key differences between Kafka and AMQP, comparing their architectures and use cases to help you choose the right solution. Read More