Apache Kafka in Azure

Apache Kafka has seen great adoption across different verticals & industries and has indeed become the de-facto choice when it comes to data streaming, building real-time big data pipelines or even communicating asynchronously b/w your trendy microservices.

In this article, we compare and have a quick look at the various options you have to run your Kafka Cluster in Azure — please keep in mind this is my personal opinion based on my personal experience & does not reflect the opinion of my employer, Microsoft in this case.