Kafka skalerer til massiv gjennomstrømning (millioner av events/sek) gjennom partisjonering, tillegg av brokers og consumere, og tuning. Å forstå hvordan Kafka skalerer er viktig for høyvolumutbygginger.
Skalerings-mekanismer
✓ PARTITIONS → the primary scaling unit: more partitions → more parallelism (producer and
consumer) → distribute data and load across brokers and consumers
✓ BROKERS → add brokers to the cluster → more storage, throughput, and capacity (spread
partitions across more machines)
✓ CONSUMERS → add consumers to a group (up to partition count) → parallel consumption
✓ PRODUCERS → batching, compression, multiple producers → high write throughput
→ Kafka scales HORIZONTALLY (add partitions/brokers/consumers)
