Running Kafka in 2021: A Cloud-Native Service

There’s no questioning the value of Apache Kafka® and real-time data to your business. Unfortunately, the toll of self-managing is too costly when you add up scaling, managing, supporting, securing, building connectors… and everything else that comes with it. In 2021, if you want to deliver high-value projects that drive competitive advantage or business differentiation quickly, your best people can’t be stuck in the day-to-day management of Kafka, and your budget is better spent on your core business. By now you know, the answer is cloud.

Here’s the point: You’ve likely chosen to utilize cloud services like EC2, S3, and BigQuery. It’s time to do that for Kafka, with Confluent Cloud.

We want to help you move faster, reduce TCO, and get your best people out of Kafka ops. The only way to do this is to stop managing Kafka yourself or using other tools that may host the clusters for you, yet leave you on the hook for the lion’s share of the ops burden and dealing with things like:

• Complex cluster sizing, capacity planning, and expansions
• Kafka upgrades and software patches
• Consumer lag
• Partitions flapping in and out of the ISR
• Managing ZooKeeper
• Server restarts
• The list goes on…