Our Multi-Year Journey to a 10x Faster Confluent Cloud

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Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native service based on Apache Kafka. We run tens of thousands of clusters across all major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP and Azure). In this talk, we will go over our journey to make Confluent Cloud 10x faster than Apache Kafka.

We will talk about how we designed our various workloads, the complexities involved in our cloud-native service, the challenges we faced, and the various pitfalls we ran into. We will also cover the interesting learnings, which in hindsight, are first principles from this multi-year journey.

By attending this talk, attendees will be able to take our learnings from making Confluent Cloud latencies 10x better and possibly apply similar principles to their cloud native data streaming systems.

Presenter

Marc Selwan

Confluent

Marc Selwan is the staff product manager for the Kora Storage team at Confluent. Prior to Confluent, Marc held product and customer engineering roles at DataStax, working on storage and indexing engines for Apache Cassandra.

Presenter

Shriram Sridharan

Confluent

Shriram currently leads the Kafka Data Infrastructure team at Confluent.The team is responsible for delivering Apache Kafka to be the fastest and most cost efficient cloud native service for our customers. Prior to joining Confluent, he worked at AWS for seven years building a cloud native relational database service called Amazon Aurora.

Our Multi-Year Journey to a 10x Faster Confluent Cloud

Presenter

Marc Selwan

Presenter

Shriram Sridharan

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