Benchmarking and performance testing is an important first step when getting started with Apache Kafka. Sunil Kumar Behera from Confluent presented his Kafka Benchmarking 101 presentation at a meetup earlier this week.
In his presentation Sunil covers:
- the tools that are available to perform benchmark tests on our Kafka clusters
- the metrics to watch for both producers and consumer
- config variables to tweak to get the results we are looking for
@alice.richardson has posted the meetup video over in Events. Check it out!