Everybody knows Kafka is robust, performant, and scalable.
But its stability and performance depend on the underlying infrastructure, as well as the tools used to deploy and monitor it.

Choosing the best platform and technology stack is not a trivial task when you want to build a hybrid, multi-cloud solution that provides features like multitenacy, self-service and cross-cloud replication.

At Porsche, we strive to offer our clients the simplest possible user experience of adapting a central Kafka cluster and in the same time to be compliant with extremely high security and data integrity standards.

In this talk we will present how we evaluated different platforms and tools, what criteria we used while evaluation possible solutions, and finally - which solution won and how we implemented it while keeping the German engineering mindset.