We previously explored how we built our own Serverless Engine and a multi-region networking layer based on Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma. But what about the architecture of the engine that orchestrates these components across the world? This is an interesting topic to work on and we thought it could be useful to share some internals out there. Put on your scuba equipment, this is a deep dive into our architecture and the story of how we built our own global deployment engine.

Finding meaningful cost savings is a high priority for companies running their enterprise architecture in the public cloud. Cloud costs have ballooned in recent years and account for over 30% of IT budgets, reports IDC. Enterprises have sought to shift their cloud workloads from on-premises to public clouds, depending upon pricing and performance, to provide themselves with better leverage and business flexibility.

We're excited to announce not one but… 4 new regions in public preview! Everyone with Starter access or more can now deploy simultaneously across our 6 regions in EU, US, and APAC in literally 1 minute.

Confluent and AWS Lambda can be used for building real-time, scalable, fault-tolerant event-driven architectures, ensuring that your application logic is executed reliably in response to specific business events. Confluent provides a streaming SaaS solution based on Apache Kafka® and built on Kora: The Cloud Native Apache Kafka Engine, allowing you to focus on building event-driven applications without operating the underlying infrastructure.