Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructureApache Kafka is a popular solution for distributed streaming and queuing for large amounts of data. It is widely adopted in the technology industry, and Dropbox is no exception. Kafka plays an important role in the data fabric of many of our critical distributed systems: data analytics, machine learning, monitoring, search, and stream processing ( Cape), to name a few. At Dropbox, Kafka clusters a
