Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Migrating Apache Kafka clusters is notoriously complex, often taking six months to a year of dual-stack operations, manual dependency mapping, and operational overhead. In this episode of Data Streaming Now, Ali Alemi and Josh Opos walk through how Amazon MSK Replicator eliminates the pain. Learn how this fully managed service handles data replication without need to setup open-source Apache MirrorMaker, synchronizes consumer offsets bi-directionally for seamless workload cutover, and dramatically compresses migration timelines. Includes a live demo of an end-to-end migration.
Migrating Apache Kafka clusters is notoriously complex, often taking six months to a year of dual-stack operations, manual dependency mapping, and operational overhead. In this episode of Data Streaming Now, Ali Alemi and Josh Opos walk through how Amazon MSK Replicator eliminates the pain. Learn how this fully managed service handles data replication without need to setup open-source Apache MirrorMaker, synchronizes consumer offsets bi-directionally for seamless workload cutover, and dramatically compresses migration timelines. Includes a live demo of an end-to-end migration.
