Why Cluster Rebalancing Counts More Than You Think in Your Apache Kafka® Costs

Koushik is a Senior Cloud Enablement Engineer at Confluent, focused on helping organizations design and scale real-time data streaming workloads using Confluent Cloud. He has experience working with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and building production-grade data pipelines across retail, automotive, and SaaS domains. Before joining Confluent, he led architecture initiatives in a product organization where he designed multi-tenant SaaS platforms, streaming-based analytics systems, and real-time operational dashboards. Today, he works closely with engineering and data teams to modernize applications with event streaming and guide them on Kafka performance tuning, schema governance, and data integration patterns using Kafka Connect and Flink.

This blog was a collaborative effort between multiple Confluent employees.