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Managed Kafka

Kafka that just keeps flowing.

Kafka consulting and managed Kafka operations: cluster design, Kafka Connect, schema registry, monitoring and upgrades, run in your cloud or private cloud as an alternative to MSK or Confluent Cloud.

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Apache KafkaKRaftKafka ConnectStrimziSchema Registry

Kafka is the backbone of many data platforms, and the part nobody wants to be paged for. It needs capacity planning and careful operations.

Consumer lag nobody watchesConfluent or MSK bill growingPartitions and retention guessedUpgrades postponed
What we do

Managed Kafka, end to end.

Cluster design

Brokers, KRaft, partitions, replication and retention sized for throughput and durability.

Kafka Connect

Source and sink connectors, including Debezium CDC, run reliably.

Schema registry

Schemas and compatibility rules so producers cannot break consumers.

Monitoring

Lag, throughput and broker health with alerts before consumers fall behind.

Security

TLS, SASL and ACLs set up properly.

Operations

Rolling upgrades, rebalancing and scaling without downtime.

How it works

Three steps, no big-bang cut-over.

01

Assess

Throughput, retention, consumers and current costs.

02

Build

Cluster, Connect and registry deployed as code.

03

Operate

Monitoring, upgrades and on-call by your team or by us.

What you get

Deliverables you keep.

  • Kafka architecture
  • Cluster and Connect as code
  • Schema registry setup
  • Lag and health dashboards
  • Security configuration
  • Upgrade and recovery runbooks
Stack

Tools we use here.

Apache KafkaKRaftKafka ConnectStrimziSchema RegistryRedpanda
Ways to engage

Start small, or hand it all over.

fixed scope

Assess

Read-only review, ranked plan in 5 days.

fixed fee

Build & hand over

Built in your account, then handed to your team.

monthly

Fully managed

We run it end to end, with an SLA.

monthly

Support

Senior help for your engineers.

FAQ

Questions about Managed Kafka.

Should we use MSK or Confluent Cloud instead?

Sometimes. At steady throughput, self-managed Kafka in your account is often much cheaper; we compare before recommending.

Do you run Kafka on Kubernetes?

Yes, with Strimzi, or on VMs and bare metal where that fits better.

What about Redpanda?

We work with Redpanda too, and help you choose based on your workload.

Can you take over an existing cluster?

Yes, after a read-only review of configuration, lag and capacity.

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