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In this post, we share examples of using quotas with IBM Event Endpoint Management, give you some pointers to help you try them for yourself, and most importantly get you thinking about where this might be useful for your own catalog.

Event Endpoint Management makes it easy for you to share your Kafka topics. Put some of your Kafka topics in the catalog, and allow colleagues and partners to discover the topics, so they can use the self-service catalog page to get started with them immediately.

Increasing reuse of your streams of events makes it possible for your business to unlock even more value from them. Innovative new ways to use them, that you might not have even thought of, will be enabled the more widely you share.

But before you invite colleagues and partners to start using your topics, you want to make sure that you’re ready. Event Endpoint Management offers a range of tools to make sure that you remain in control. Quotas are just one of these, and we dig into what they offer in this post.

• Quotas – for producers – we’ll start with an intro for what quotas are for
• Seeing quotas in action – for producers – we’ll take you through a demo (that you can try for yourself)
• Quotas – for consumers – we’ll quickly explain how this helps with Kafka consumers as well
• Seeing quotas in action – for consumers – we’ll go through a demo of this, too
• Multiple partitions – the impact is a little subtle if you have multiple partitions
• How it works – once you’ve seen it in action, we’ll peek under the hood to explain how the Event Gateway does this
• Adding quotas to the back-end – We’ll show you an example of where else you can add quotas as part of an overall solution
• Other controls – we’ll finish with a pointer to some other controls available to you, that complement what quotas can do

Co-authored with Chris Patmore

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