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Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Olivia Greene, Ahmed Saef Zamzam, Prabha Manepalli, Weifan Liang
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764
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English
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2

Summary

Confluent Platform now offers Multi-Datacenter Replication, a feature that automates data replication between Kafka clusters across multiple datacenters, making it easy to manage data flow and placement without writing code. This feature is part of Confluent Platform 7.7 and provides hassle-free replication at scale, with features such as automatic topic creation and modification, fault tolerance, and monitoring through Confluent Control Center. The feature can be used for various use cases, including aggregation and analytics, and can be easily implemented using the Kafka Connect API.