Allowing multiple data centers to be treated as one leads to an Apache Kafka cluster deployment strategy as shown on the diagram below ... on the relevance of architecture within agile development ...

You can scale Kafka horizontally simply by adding additional brokers to the cluster. The following diagram illustrates the architectural components in Kafka – a high level view. Apache ...

In fact, generic clusters running Kafka 2.4 or higher, on non-Confluent distributions, can participate in Cluster Linking as well, albeit in a unidirectional, read-only capacity. Even Confluent ...