Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
Honeycomb
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
For the entirety of Honeycomb’s existence, we have used Apache Kafka to perform this buffering function in our observability pipeline. In this post, we’ll review the history of how we got here, why we’re so picky about Kafka software and hardware, and how we qualified and adopted the new AWS Graviton2-based storage instances.
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