Transition to Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi - A Migration Case Study

Explore a comprehensive migration case study detailing Maersk's transition from Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud to self-managed Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi. Dive into the past, present, and future of Maersk's Event Streaming Platform, now in its third generation. Learn about the architecture, design, and implementation of this large-scale, highly reliable platform that segregates data based on isolated use cases. Discover the reasoning behind the migration and gain insights into monitoring techniques using Grafana and Prometheus, alerting strategies with GoAlert and alert-as-code, and self-service solutions built on top of Strimzi. Examine the GitOps deployment model utilizing Flux and Kustomization, implemented in GoLang, to enable business-critical applications. If time permits, witness a demonstration of an open-source self-service tool for monitoring and exploring the cluster, featuring topic message browsing and connector configuration and restart capabilities.