Obratovanje Kafke v produkciji zahteva pozornost na velikost gručo, replikacijo, monitoring, varnost in vzdrževanje — Kafka je zmogljiv, a operacijsko zapleten distribuirani sistem. Razumevanje operacijskih vidikov (ali uporaba upravljane Kafke) je pomembno za zanesljivo obratovanje.
Postavitev gručo in zanesljivost
✓ Adequate BROKERS → size the cluster for throughput, storage, and replication needs
✓ REPLICATION → replication factor ≥ 3, min.insync.replicas for durability (no data loss)
✓ Spread across racks/AZs → survive failures (rack awareness)
✓ PARTITIONS → plan partition counts for parallelism and growth (hard to reduce later)
✓ Capacity planning → throughput, retention/storage, growth
