https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Cloud-Native Articles feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-cloud-native-kafka/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cloud-Native-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/architecting-cloud-native-kafka/en/headerimage/architecting-cloud-native-kafka-header-1779433382367.jpg"/><p>This article explores Kafka's transition toward a cloud-native architecture, examining how tiered storage, FinOps telemetry, elastic consumer scaling, virtual clusters, and Share Groups reshape the operational and economic model of event streaming platforms. It also analyzes emerging diskless-storage proposals and their architectural trade-offs.</p> <i>By Viquar Khan</i> Kafka Streams Apache Kafka Cloud-Native AI, ML & Data Engineering Development Architecture & Design article Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-cloud-native-kafka/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cloud-Native-articles Viquar Khan 2026-05-26T09:00:00Z /articles/architecting-cloud-native-kafka/en