This is the second in a series of blog posts sharing examples of ways to use Mirror Maker 2 with IBM Event Streams.
- Using Mirror Maker 2 to aggregate events from multiple regions
- Using Mirror Maker 2 to broadcast events to multiple regions
- Using Mirror Maker 2 to share topics across multiple regions
- Using Mirror Maker 2 to create a failover cluster
- Using Mirror Maker 2 to restore events from a backup cluster
- Using Mirror Maker 2 to migrate to a different region
Mirror Maker 2 is a powerful and flexible tool for moving Kafka events between Kafka clusters, but sometimes I feel like this can be forgotten if we only talk about it in the context of disaster recovery.
In these posts, I want to inspire you to think about other ways you could use Mirror Maker 2. The best way to learn about what is possible is to play with it for yourself, so with these posts I’ll include a script to create a demonstration of the scenario.
For this second post, I’ll look at using Mirror Maker to broadcast events to clusters in multiple regions.
Where the last post described a “fan in” scenario, this is effectively the opposite use case: a “fan out” scenario.