How to Finish a Migration Project? What If We Used Kafka?
summary
A retrospective on large migration projects (cloud moves, DB changes, microservices, containerization and SaaS) that examines practical decisions, pitfalls and lessons learned while using Apache Kafka as the integration/transport mechanism. It reviews concrete concepts that helped teams get moving—Data Gravity, KISS, dogfooding—and evaluates Kafka’s capabilities for solving migration problems, ending with governance and Data Mesh considerations.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Migration complexity
- 6:51Migration mental models
- 15:06Identify domain and source
- 21:49Kafka for migrations
- 27:03Kafka backbone architecture
- 33:48Kafka challenges and best practices
- 37:03Evolving to Data Mesh with Kafka
- 43:21Summary
- 46:13Q&A
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