Best Practices for Kafka Management to Ensure High Availability

This article outlines best practices for managing Apache Kafka to achieve high availability and resilient performance, covering topic/partition design, replication strategies, multi-zone deployments, monitoring and alerting of key metrics, capacity planning and scaling, and configuration tuning (e.g., replication factor, batch size, retention). It emphasizes proactive operations and balanced resource utilization to maintain fault-tolerant, uninterrupted streaming infrastructure.