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Confluent Architecture

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Confluent Architecture Design Workshop

Engagement Objectives

Architecting around real-time data and stream processing can be complex. By having a Confluent expert directly with your and developers, you can greatly reduce that complexity, and improve the of the design you put into production.

This engagement takes the form of an in-depth workshop where a Confluent Professional Services expert works with your team to assess your business and technical goals, calling on knowledge gained from previous customer use cases, and working with you to iterate on an application architecture design that can be developed and implemented. We will advise and guide your team on how best to use each product component, share best practices and flag potential pitfalls.

If your team is new to Confluent and Apache Kafka®, a base of knowledge is required to get the most out of the engagement. Having key staff complete the Confluent Developer and Administrator training beforehand is essential to comprehend the concepts and Confluent Platform architecture.

Benefits Who should attend?

• Confluent validation that architecture is correct for your • Developers and

use case • Administrators responsible for an upcoming Kafka • Confluent validation of and sizing cluster deployment

• Knowledge transfer specific to your teams level of •

understanding • Product/Project Owner • Targeted recommendations specific to your business and use case Engagement Location & Timing

• Acceleration of design phase and time to value 1. Engagement is delivered over 2 consecutive days on-site at the customer’s premises

Prerequisites 2. There is an additional 1-2 days non customer facing time • Practical experience and or training can improve the value included for session preparation, documentation development obtained from the Workshop and review

• One or more staff having completed the Confluent 3. The sessions may be conducted via remote sessions Administrator & Developer training upon request

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Engagement Activities

Pre-engagement survey and kick-off call Post-engagement report delivery • Align on engagement expectations and goals • Survey and follow-up call • Preparation of final agenda Knowledge Transfer • Confirm logistics Post-workshop, the Confluent expert will provide a peer-reviewed Engagement workshop (sample agenda): report with a written summary of their recommendations, which may include: • Use case walkthrough 1. An architectural design for your use cases • Architecture as-is and to-be discussion 2. Findings and best-practice recommendations • Data modeling 3. Design patterns around integrations, delivery, and processing • Client review 4. Scalability and high availability recommendations • Kafka connect 5. Potential testing recommendations • Additional platform components (Confluent Control Center, Confluent Replicator, etc.) Outcomes • Capacity planning • Agenda specific to your requirements • Basic security practices • On-site Workshop • Monitoring • Confluent peer-reviewed best practice • Operational topics e.g Kafka configurations and recommendations report ZooKeeper tuning • Follow-up call to walk through the report • Deployment best practices

Out of Scope Discussion of considerations & recommendations, including the following: • In depth security review • Designing for scalability and high-availability • Advanced architecture concepts • Patterns to guarantee data delivery and processing • RBAC • Integration with surrounding systems Terms & Conditions • Approaches and tradeoffs in designing real-time stream This engagement is governed by the terms and conditions processing applications. specified in your order with Confluent.

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