Kuendesha Kafka katika production kunahitaji kuzingatia cluster sizing, replication, monitoring, security, na maintenance — Kafka ni distributed system yenye nguvu lakini ngumu kiutendaji. Kuelewa mambo ya kiutendaji (au kutumia managed Kafka) ni muhimu kwa kuiendesha kwa uaminifu.
Cluster setup na uaminifu
✓ 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
