Kafka Summit

There are various strategies for securely connecting to Kafka clusters between different networks or over the public internet. Many cloud providers even offer endpoints that privately route traffic between networks and are not exposed to the internet. But, depending on your network setup and how you are running Kafka, these options … might not be an option! In this session, we’ll discuss how you can use SSH bastions or a self managed PrivateLink endpoint to establish connectivity to your Kafka clusters without exposing brokers directly to the internet....

Over time, deploying and running Kafka became easier and easier. Today you can choose amongst a large ecosystem of different managed offerings or just deploy to Kubernetes directly. But, although you have plenty of options to optimize your Kafka configuration and choose infrastructure that matches your use case and budget, it’s not always easy to tell how these choices affect overall cluster performance. In this session, we’ll take a look at Kafka performance from an infrastructure perspective....