Building Walmart’s Seamless Communication: Leveraging Kafka’s Custom Partitioning

Thejasvini K S, Indranath Bardhan, Priyanka Sahoo and Communication Service Team

Placing the customer at the forefront is of utmost importance at Walmart. This involves timely communication with customers like timely grocery deliveries. This led us to develop a communication service architecture that is resilient, fault-tolerant, fail-safe, rapid and time-sensitive.

One of the key features that contribute to Kafka’s success is its ability to partition data across multiple brokers. This partitioning mechanism ensures efficient data distribution …

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