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

Explore the multi-year journey to make Confluent Cloud 10x faster than Apache Kafka in this 34-minute conference talk. Dive into the design of various workloads, complexities of cloud-native services, and challenges faced in improving Confluent Cloud's performance. Learn about the first principles discovered during this process and gain insights that can be applied to cloud-native data streaming systems. Understand how Confluent Cloud, a cloud-native service based on Apache Kafka, operates across major cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Discover valuable lessons and potential pitfalls in optimizing latencies for cloud-based data infrastructure, and see how these improvements enable real-time data streaming across organizations.