Honeycomb Migrates to KRaft Kafka on EKS, Cuts Ops Risk
Honeycomb moved its observability pipeline from self‑hosted Confluent + ZooKeeper EC2 clusters to open‑source Apache Kafka 4.1.1 in KRaft mode on AWS EKS. The multi‑month migration emphasizes rollback‑first design, incident‑driven learning, and cross‑team processes that boosted safety and confidence at scale.