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How Adidas uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Adidas's Kafka architecture — covering observability at 100 billion messages per day, self-service topic provisioning, and custom GoLang tooling.
How Apple uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Apple's Kafka architecture — covering their managed internal platform, Strimzi on EKS, tiered storage, zero-data-movement balancing, and mTLS migration.
How Barclays uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Barclays' Kafka architecture — covering dual-environment deployment on AWS and IBM Z-Linux, operating practices, and the broader streaming stack.
How Datadog uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Datadog's Kafka architecture — covering use cases, scale, engineering decisions, and key contributors across hundreds of clusters.
Apache Kafka architecture: a complete guide
A complete guide to Apache Kafka architecture: internals, components, KRaft, replication, consumers, Connect, Streams, and deployment options.
How Netflix uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Netflix's Kafka architecture, covering the Keystone pipeline, Data Mesh platform, scale figures from 700 billion to 2 trillion events per day, and the engineering decisions behind it.
How New Relic uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into New Relic's Kafka architecture — covering use cases, scale, engineering decisions and key contributors.
How Notion uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Notion's Kafka architecture — covering use cases, scale, engineering decisions, and key contributors across their data lake and AI pipelines.
How PagerDuty uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into PagerDuty's Kafka architecture, covering event ingestion, notification scheduling, task execution, and the engineering decisions behind each.