Serverless Decoded: Reinventing Kafka Scaling with Elastic CKUs
Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for data streaming, used by organizations everywhere to anchor event-driven architectures and power mission-critical real-time applications. However, this rise has also sparked discussions on improving Kafka operations and cost-efficiency—streaming data is naturally prone to bursts and often unpredictable, resulting in inevitable variations in workloads and demand on your Kafka cluster(s).