10 lessons learned from using Kafka in more than 1000 microservices

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Natan Silnitsky

Natan Silnitsky

Backend Infra Engineer at Wix, Izrael

Natan Silnitsky is a backend-infra engineer @Wix.com.

He is on the Data streaming team in charge of building event-driven libraries and tools on top of Kafka. Before that, he was part of a task force that was responsible for building the next generation CI system at Wix on top of Google’s Bazel build tool.

Has many years of experience as a developer of large scale web services – First in .Net, later in Scala.

Natan’s passions include clean code, dev velocity, and great software design.

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10 lessons learned from using Kafka in more than 1000 microservices

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Kafka is the bedrock of Wix’s distributed Mega Microservices system.
Over the years we have learned a lot about how to successfully scale our event-driven architecture to roughly 1400 mostly Scala microservices.
In this talk, you will learn about 10 key decisions and steps you can take in order to safely scale-up your Kafka-based system.

For example:

how to achieve and maintain good performance and availability across all your services;
how to keep costs down;
how to increase the dev velocity of event-driven style code;
how to tackle multiple DCs environments;
any many more…