Internet-Scale Analytics: Migrating a Mission Critical Product to the Cloud
Summary
Akamai migrated its high-volume internet security analytics platform from an on-premises Hadoop architecture to a cloud-native setup using Azure blob storage, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Databricks. The resulting architecture decouples raw data storage from streaming metadata via Kafka, utilizing custom shared libraries and sharding strategies to achieve low-latency ingestion, cost-effective scaling, and improved performance.
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