Batch Processing vs. Real-Time Stream Processing with Apache Flink

Co-author and section reviewer. A comprehensive adoption guide for technical executives, platform owners, and project managers evaluating or rolling out Confluent. Covers architecture patterns, operational considerations, and the organizational side of moving to event-driven platforms.

Published on the Confluent Blog, March 2021. Self-managing a Kafka cluster means wiring up your own monitoring. This post walks through how to export JMX data from Confluent clusters into Prometheus and Grafana with minimal setup. It became the reference blog series for connecting Confluent ecosystems to Prometheus-based monitoring stacks.

When multiple teams share a Confluent Cloud environment but a single CoE team manages everything, the billing question comes up fast: who’s actually using what, and how much does it cost?