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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

A managed service should never put the user’s hand on the wheel to make hard decisions, such as: Deciding details about how much hardware (e.g., Managed services should not request the user to make hard design decisions. CPU, memory, and disk) to use. Exposing details about the underlying network and compute infrastructure.

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

High Scalability

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. I also wish we were on SOA from day one, it took us some time to reach there but we are there now. How do you handle load balancing?