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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Some products may automatically create Kafka clusters in a dedicated compute instance and provide a way to connect to it, but eventually, users might need to scale the cluster, patch it, upgrade it, create backups, etc. Imagine that a developer needs to send records from a topic to an S3 bucket in AWS. That’s just part of the cost.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Load Balancers / Reverse Proxy. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. In SOA, build circuit breakers to shed load early and start sending 503s if your service is choked.