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Advanced Managed Kafka Overview

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KakaoCloud's Advanced Managed Kafka provides Apache Kafka as a fully managed service for large-scale real-time data streaming processing. KakaoCloud handles the complex tasks of Kafka configuration, monitoring, and fault recovery, allowing users to process data streams effortlessly without directly managing clusters.

Terminology
  • Apache Kafka: Apache Kafka is a distributed messaging platform designed for large-scale real-time data streaming and event-based processing. It is primarily used for high-speed transmission and storage of data, such as log collection, user activity tracking, and order processing. Data is organized and managed in topics, with producers publishing messages and consumers subscribing to process them. For more details, refer to the official Apache Kafka documentation.

Purpose and use cases​

Building and operating infrastructure for real-time data streaming and event processing pose significant challenges. In data-intensive environments, managing message delivery latency, minimizing the risk of data loss, and ensuring scalability are essential. These tasks, including cluster configuration, data replication, and fault recovery, require substantial resources and time.

KakaoCloud's Advanced Managed Kafka service is designed to automate cluster installation, configuration, monitoring, and fault recovery. By leveraging the high scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency of Advanced Managed Kafka, you can focus more on designing business logic and data processing pipelines instead of infrastructure management.

Features​

Simplified infrastructure setup​

  • Easily build infrastructure for real-time data streaming and event processing
  • Automate cluster installation, configuration, management, and monitoring to reduce operational overhead

High availability and durability​

  • Automatically distribute clusters across multiple availability zones to ensure stable data processing even in case of failures
  • Guarantee reliable streaming without data loss, maintaining business continuity

Scalability​

  • Easily scale according to increasing data processing demands
  • Flexibly add resources and optimize performance to handle large-scale traffic effectively

Getting started​

For detailed usage guides on Advanced Managed Kafka, refer to the How-to Guides.
If you are new to KakaoCloud, start with the Start section.