I’ve been talking about MirrorMaker 2 this week – the Apache Kafka tool for replicating data across two Kafka clusters. You can use it to make a copy of messages on your Kafka cluster to a remote Kafka cluster running on a different data centre, and keep that copy up to date in the background.
For the discussion we had, I needed to give examples of how you might use MirrorMaker 2, which essentially meant I spent an afternoon drawing pictures. As some of them were a little pretty, I thought I’d tidy them up and share them here.
We went through several different use cases, but I’ll just describe two examples here.
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