Building High-Scale Backend Systems with Kafka

Discover strategies for overcoming tech debts and legacy architecture to achieve reliable backend system scalability in this 56-minute talk. Explore how Kafka and event-driven architecture can be leveraged as alternatives to upgrading monoliths to microservices. Learn about bottlenecks and scalability issues in monolithic and microservices architectures, understand the concept of event-driven systems and their ability to independently scale teams and features, and gain insights into best practices for using Kafka to handle high-scale operations. Access the speaker's presentation slides for additional reference and join the Platform Engineering Slack community for further discussions on the topic.