Lacework, a leader in cloud security services, has transitioned to using Redpanda, an Apache Kafka-compatible streaming data platform, to enhance its application security services across the entire lifecycle. This transition was driven by the need for a scalable, reliable, and efficient solution to manage their rapidly growing 1GBps+ data streaming workloads, which their previous proprietary solution could not handle. Redpanda, with its high-performance architecture and ease of deployment, enables Lacework to manage data spikes and ensure high availability and disaster recovery across multiple clusters. This architecture, dubbed "pipe dream," allows for seamless topic migration between clusters, improving resource utilization and operational agility, while maintaining strict service level objectives. Lacework plans to leverage Redpanda's Tiered Storage to reduce storage costs and is preparing to migrate to a managed Kubernetes environment with Amazon EKS in 2023, underscoring Redpanda's flexibility and alignment with modern infrastructure needs.