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Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

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Instead of using a managed service, we’ve chosen to build expertise in-house, treating outages as unscheduled learning opportunities rather than reasons to fear Kafka. In the words of our platform engineering manager, Ben Hartshorne, Kafka is the “beating heart” of Honeycomb, powering our 99.99% ingest availability SLO.

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Two Tales

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And then after a brief stint as a software engineering manager at a small startup I went on to work at Google, where I joined this new nascent team called Site Reliability Engineering, and that teams goal is to be, as a previous speaker mentioned, the master of disaster for Google. So we had to do all that on the fly.