The (Hidden) Cost of Kafka Operations

In this blog series on understanding your Kafka costs, we discuss how to assess the development and operations costs associated with running Apache Kafka® clusters. We cover major activities that drive these costs, such as capacity planning, integrating additional features beyond the core Kafka broker, scaling the cluster, upgrading and patching regularly, and managing downtime and security risks. Additionally, we explore how moving to a fully managed Kafka service can help reduce these costs and improve efficiency.