PDE Ingesting and Processing the Data Practice Question
You are migrating an on-premises Kafka cluster to Google Cloud. The cluster has 50 topics with a total throughput of 200 MB/s. You want to minimize operational overhead. Which approach is the most cost-effective?
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Use Dataproc to run Kafka on a managed cluster
Managed Kafka services are not available natively on GCP; the recommended approach is to run Kafka on Dataproc, which provides a managed Hadoop/Spark environment with autoscaling.
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