Apache Kafka Consulting
Cluster architecture, streaming design, and operations that keep Kafka dependable.
contact us nowKafka health check
A structured review of cluster configuration, partitioning, replication, retention, consumer-group behavior, and monitoring — delivered as a findings-and-fixes report ranked by production risk.
Streaming architecture & build
Topic and schema design with Avro or Protobuf and Schema Registry, producer and consumer implementation, Kafka Streams and Connect pipelines, and delivery-guarantee decisions made explicit.
Migrations & upgrades
Broker version upgrades, ZooKeeper-to-KRaft moves, migrations between self-managed clusters, Amazon MSK, and Confluent, and multi-region replication — planned, rehearsed, and rolled out without drama.
Operations & capacity
SLO-driven monitoring, capacity planning grounded in measured throughput, partition rebalancing, and incident response when a streaming outage needs experienced hands.
Both sides of the broker
Application-side fluency — Streams topologies, transactional producers, consumer-group tuning — and platform-side depth in broker internals, KRaft, and storage sizing. Most problems live at the seam; we work on both sides of it.
Vendor-neutral by design
Self-managed, Amazon MSK, or Confluent — we advise on the trade-offs and migrate in whichever direction the evidence points. We sell engineering judgment, not a platform.
Operations as architecture
Monitoring, capacity, and upgrade posture are designed alongside topics and schemas, not bolted on after the first incident. A streaming platform is good when it is uneventful.