March 2017 Summaries

This article reviews the raw write throughput performance of Apache Kafka on various cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and UpCloud. The Chief Technology Officer at Aiven, Heikki Nousiainen, shares a benchmark test they conducted to estimate maximum write throughput rates for different Aiven Kafka plan tiers in these clouds. They found that the performance of Apache Kafka scales nicely with added resources and increased cluster size.

Aiven has introduced larger 32GB and 64GB plan tiers to its Aiven for Apache Kafka offerings, with increased core counts and memory available in Business and Premium Kafka plans across Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and UpCloud regions. The company also added support for Confluent's Kafka Schema Registry, which allows users to store their Kafka message descriptions in a centralized registry. Additionally, Aiven has launched support for Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, enabling users to link Aiven services directly into their own VPC networks and access the services with private IP addresses as if they were in the same network.