Kafka
Management
Installation, topic design, replication, backup, and failure recovery for production Apache Kafka — sized correctly, tested for real failures, and supported end to end.
Complete Kafka Management
From first broker to 2 AM failure recovery — everything a production Kafka cluster needs.
Installation & Cluster Setup
A correctly sized, correctly configured cluster from the first broker.
- ✓ Multi-broker cluster deployment (KRaft or ZooKeeper)
- ✓ Broker hardware/resource sizing
- ✓ Cluster networking & listener configuration
- ✓ Schema Registry deployment (Avro/Protobuf)
- ✓ TLS & SASL authentication setup
Topic & Partition Management
Topic design that fits your throughput and consumer parallelism, not guesswork.
- ✓ Partition count & key strategy design
- ✓ Retention & compaction policy configuration
- ✓ Topic naming standards & governance
- ✓ Consumer group design & rebalancing strategy
- ✓ Kafka Connect source/sink configuration
Replication & High Availability
Configured to survive a broker failure without losing committed messages.
- ✓ Replication factor & in-sync replica (ISR) tuning
- ✓ Rack/AZ-aware replica placement
- ✓ Min in-sync replicas for durability guarantees
- ✓ Broker failure & leader election testing
- ✓ Rolling broker upgrades with zero downtime
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Cross-cluster replication and configuration backup, not just hoping the cluster never fails.
- ✓ MirrorMaker 2 cross-region/cross-cluster replication
- ✓ Cluster metadata & configuration backup
- ✓ Topic/ACL/schema backup automation
- ✓ DR failover runbook documentation
- ✓ Regular DR failover drills
Monitoring & Performance Tuning
Consumer lag and broker health visible before they become an outage.
- ✓ Consumer lag & throughput dashboards
- ✓ Broker JVM, disk & network monitoring
- ✓ Prometheus/JMX exporter deployment
- ✓ Producer/consumer throughput tuning
- ✓ Under-replicated partition alerting
Debug & Failure Recovery
Real Kafka expertise when a broker won't rejoin or a consumer group stalls.
- ✓ Broker failure & under-replication recovery
- ✓ Consumer group stuck/rebalance troubleshooting
- ✓ Data loss investigation & ISR analysis
- ✓ Disk full / log segment cleanup
- ✓ Post-incident runbook documentation
Sized for Your Load, Tested for Real Failures
Kafka's durability guarantees only hold if replication is configured correctly and actually tested. We don't take that on faith.
ISR Configured Deliberately
Replication factor and min in-sync replicas are set based on your actual durability requirements, not left at defaults that silently under-protect critical topics.
Broker Failure Tested Before Go-Live
We kill a broker on purpose during onboarding and confirm leader election and consumer failover actually work — not just assume the replication config is correct.
Consumer Lag as an Early Warning
A growing consumer lag almost always predicts trouble before it becomes visible to end users. We alert on the trend, not just a threshold.
Real Kafka Expertise on Call
Under-replicated partitions, stuck consumer groups, disk-full brokers — we diagnose the actual root cause, not just bounce the broker and hope.
Platforms & Tools We Work With
How We Onboard & Support
Workload Assessment
Message volume, retention needs, and consumer patterns reviewed to size the cluster correctly.
Cluster Build
Brokers deployed, topics designed, replication and security configured for your workload.
Test Failure Scenarios
Broker-kill and under-replication tests run before go-live to confirm durability actually holds.
Operate & Support
24×7 lag/throughput monitoring, upgrades, and on-call failure recovery — ongoing.
Common Questions
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Support You Can Rely On?
Our engineers will audit your Kafka cluster and identify quick wins on durability and cost.