https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Apache Kafka feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache+Kafka <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/en/headerimage/Netflix-Service-Topology-Header-1784725848359.jpeg"/><p>Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence, propagates backpressure to Kafka rather than dropping records, and uses server-sent events instead of gRPC for high-volume internal transfers.</p> <i>By Eran Stiller</i> Distributed Systems Microservices eBPF gRPC Netflix Apache Kafka Distributed Tracing Architecture & Design news Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:20:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache+Kafka Eran Stiller 2026-08-11T12:20:00Z /news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/en