Ali Hamidi

This blog post is adapted from a talk given by Ali Hamidi at Data Council SF ’19 titled “Operating Multi-Tenant Kafka Services for Developers on Heroku.”

Thousands of developers use Heroku’s Apache Kafka service to process millions of transactions on our platform—and many of them do so through our multi-tenant Kafka service. Operating Kafka clusters at this scale requires careful planning to ensure capacity and uptime across a wide range of customer …