Natan Silnitsky

Conf42: Cloud Native 2022

Migrating to Multi Cluster Managed Kafka with 0 Downtime

As Wix Kafka usage grew to 1.5B messages per day, >10K topics and >100K leader partitions serving 2000 microservices, we decided to migrate from self-running cluster per data-center to a managed cloud service (Confluent Cloud) with multi-cluster setup. This talk is about how we successfully migrated with 0 downtime and full traffic and the lessons we learned along the way. These lessons...