Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth

Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’ s Data Growth

摘要

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that is used for data streaming pipelines, integration, and ingestion at PayPal. It supports our most mission-critical applications and ingests trillions of messages per day into the platform, making it one of the most reliable platforms for handling the enormous volumes of data we process every day.

To handle the tremendous growth of PayPal’s streaming data since its introduction, Kafka needed to scale seamlessly while ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance. In this blog post, we will provide a high-level overview of Kafka and discuss the steps taken to achieve high performance at scale while managing operational overhead, and our key learnings and takeaways.