Security News > 2020 > May > Confluent launches elastic scaling for Apache Kafka, bringing cloud capabilities to event streaming

Confluent, the event streaming platform pioneer, announced the launch of elastic scaling for Apache Kafka.

"Elasticity is a fundamental property of cloud data systems and our first step in Project Metamorphosis is bringing elastic scaling to Kafka and it's ecosystem in Confluent Cloud," said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO, Confluent.

The Elastic release unveils new levels of elasticity that were never before possible in event streaming through innovations in Self-Balancing Clusters planned for a future Confluent Platform release; as well as on-demand cluster provisioning and expansion and a usage-based billing model for all of Confluent Cloud.

The innovations announced join a host of features already available across Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and open source Kafka, and are designed to make event streaming truly elastic.

On the first Wednesday of every month, Confluent will unveil a set of capabilities that address the major technical challenges organizations face when putting event streaming at the heart of their business, laying the foundation to make pervasive use of event streaming possible for any organization.

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