With the amount of data being created continuing to grow at a truly break-neck pace, the need for a data streaming application is no longer a luxury–it’s an absolute necessity.

Enter Apache Kafka. 

As the leading streaming and queuing technology for large scale, always-on applications and event-driven organizations, Kafka has rightfully become the go-to solution for building real-time streaming data pipelines. But managing Kafka in-house is no easy task–and often comes at a substantial cost. 

This white paper explores the numerous considerations you’ll want to take into account when deploying Kafka, and why a managed service could very well be the best route for your deployment.