[htn]

FWIW, you can get Kafka packaged as a fully managed and HA service from https://aiven.io on AWS and also Azure, GCE and DigitalOcean.

But if the Auth0 runs their entire operations on AWS, maybe Kinesis would have been a more natural transition.

[mpd]

Eh, Kinesis has some pretty significant trade-offs to know about if you are comparing it with Kafka (e.g. data retention time and write latency).

[janczukt]

We need an on-premise and cloud story, so cloud only solutions did not cut it for us.

[PieterH]

The article is a little old. How has the system run since you deployed it? Do you have any interesting figures?

[ZenoArrow]

I'm in a similar boat. I'm hoping to propose Kafka to help with some data replication and consolidation tasks, but it has to be both on-premise and as low maintenance as possible (low maintenance in the sense of the work local developers would do).

To anyone reading this with Kafka experience, do you have any tips/advice when it comes to maintaining a Kafka service?

[abritishguy]

Kinesis is very poor