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

High Scalability

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Egnyte Connect runs a service mesh extending from our own data centers to google cloud that provides multiple classes of services: Collaboration.

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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

A good example would be a company that heavily uses GCP as their cloud provider, but wants to use Kafka from Confluent Cloud. If they follow the standard process of signing up directly with Confluent, they will end up having two bills: the existing one with Google Cloud and a new one with Confluent.