Self-managing Apache Kafka forces teams to pay a "Kafka Tax," spending up to 70% of their time on manual infrastructure toil like rebalancing partitions and rolling upgrades instead of building data products. This results in a "Data Tax," where teams must custom-build essential features like security, connectors, and governance, delaying production by months.
By switching to Confluent Cloud, you have a fully managed cloud-native data streaming platform with 120+ pre-built connectors, a fully managed governance suite, serverless stream processing with Apache Flink, and Tableflow as a managed service. Confluent helps with:
• Performance: 30x faster scaling and 16x better latency than open-source Kafka.
• Flexibility: Deploy on any major cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments.
• Economics: Reduce TCO by 60% with a 257% ROI.
• Reliability: 99.99% uptime SLA and seamless, near-zero downtime migrations.
In this workshop you'll discover how to:
✅ Produce real-world workloads with sample order events
✅ Establish a Cluster Link to pull topics and messages into Confluent Cloud
✅ Validate successful data replication and ensure data integrity
✅ Reconfigure producers and consumers to point to Confluent Cloud for a smooth transition with preserved offsets
By the end, you'll have a clear understanding of the complete migration process, equipped to plan your own transition to a more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Kafka environment.
This webinar is ideal for developers and architects responsible for:
• Running mission-critical Apache Kafka workloads on Open Source Kafka.
• Evaluating or planning a migration from self-managed Kafka to Confluent Cloud.
• Seeking to reduce operational overhead and move away from complex, manual upgrades.
1️⃣ To get the most out of this hands-on workshop, we recommend having the following installed and configured:
• Confluent Cloud Account: Sign up for free here. Free credits will cover workshop costs.
• Terraform: v1.5.7 or later
• AWS: AWS CLI and active AWS account with EC2 and networking permissions
• Kafka CLI (Optional)
2️⃣ Please view this document to install prerequisites on Mac or Windows.
3️⃣ A calendar invite with access details will be shared via email. Please join 5-10 minutes before the workshop begins.
Once registered, you will receive an email with details about joining the event. If you do not receive this confirmation email, please click "Contact the Organizer" below to let us know.
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