InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production

Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage.

Part One of this series introduced us to Kafka and some basics concepts of Kafka. We also learned about how Wayfair and Hulu use InfluxDB and Kafka to create fault-tolerant, scalable, fast data pipelines. It turns out that Hulu and Wayfair aren’t the only…