Getting up to Speed with MirrorMaker 2

« Kafka Summit 2020

More and more Enterprises are relying on Apache Kafka to run their businesses. Cluster administrators need the ability to mirror data between clusters to provide high availability and disaster recovery.

MirrorMaker 2, released recently as part of Kafka 2.4.0, allows you to mirror multiple clusters and create many replication topologies. Learn all about this awesome new tool and how to reliably and easily mirror clusters.

We will first describe how MirrorMaker 2 works, including how it addresses all the shortcomings of MirrorMaker 1. We will also cover how to decide between its many deployment modes. Finally, we will share our experience running it in production as well as our tips and tricks to get a smooth ride.

Presenter

Mickael Maison

Red Hat

Mickael Maison is a committer and the chair of the Project Management Committer (PMC) for Apache Kafka. He has been contributing to Apache Kafka and its wider ecosystem since 2015. Mickael is a software engineer with over 10 years of software development experience. He is currently working in the Kafka team at Red Hat. He really enjoys sharing expertise and teaching and has been writing monthly Kafka digests since 2018 and enjoys presenting at conferences.

Getting up to Speed with MirrorMaker 2

Presenter

Mickael Maison

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