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Global Event Streaming Platform

Event Streaming
Apache Kafka
Kubernetes
Distributed Systems
Go

Architected a global event streaming platform processing 1M+ events per second, enabling real-time data processing and analytics across multiple data centers.

Event streaming architecture visualization

Project Overview

Designed and implemented a globally distributed event streaming platform that handles massive-scale real-time data processing across multiple geographic regions, ensuring data consistency and minimal latency.

Architecture Components

Event Processing System

  • Multi-cluster Kafka deployment
  • Custom partition management
  • Exactly-once delivery
  • Dead letter queues
  • Schema registry
  • Event replay capability
  • Real-time monitoring

Data Flow Architecture

  • Cross-datacenter replication
  • Conflict resolution
  • Message transformation
  • Stream processing
  • Data compaction
  • Topic management
  • Consumer group balancing

Technical Implementation

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes-based deployment
  • Custom operators for automation
  • Istio service mesh
  • Prometheus monitoring
  • Grafana dashboards
  • ELK stack for logging
  • Multi-region failover

Development

  • Go microservices
  • Protocol buffers
  • gRPC communication
  • Custom serialization
  • Rate limiting
  • Circuit breakers
  • Distributed tracing

Performance Optimizations

  • Message batching
  • Compression algorithms
  • Memory management
  • Network optimization
  • Disk I/O tuning
  • Cache strategies
  • Thread pool management

Security Measures

  • End-to-end encryption
  • SASL authentication
  • ACL management
  • Audit logging
  • Network isolation
  • Secret management
  • Security scanning

Business Impact

  • 1M+ events/second throughput
  • 99.999% availability
  • < 10ms latency at p95
  • 70% cost reduction
  • Zero data loss
  • 5x performance improvement
  • 24/7 global availability
  • 40% resource optimization