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Thursday, August 13, 2026

AppFolio Ditches Manual Kafka Ops with Amazon MSK Express

AppFolio swapped out their clunky data streaming setup for Amazon MSK Express brokers, killing those painful multi-hour rebalances and manual storage headaches. Now they're running auto-scaling, workload-isolated clusters that just handle the heavy lifting without the ops drama.

source: [aws/big-data-blog]