On the importance of load testing Kafka
Socrates preached, “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” This ancient Greek anecdote applies to your modern Apache Kafka project: developers, go forth and load test your real-time application to understand the capacity and limitations of your project before deployment. Failure to do so will cost you time and money (e.g. Robinhood’s outage on a historic trading day). Load testing your real-time applications has three main objectives.