# Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes at Shopify

DevFeed: [Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes at Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/running-apache-kafka-on-kubernetes-at-shopify-1560.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/running-apache-kafka-on-kubernetes-at-shopify>)

Author: Sam Obeid

Published: 2018-11-07T18:38:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [apache-kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-kafka.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messaging.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes its Apache Kafka deployment, operational management, and migration from data centers to cloud regions with zero downtime.

## Source excerpt

In the Beginning, There Was the Data Center Shopify is a leading multi-channel commerce platform that powers over 600,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries. We first adopted Apache Kafka as our data bus for reliable messaging in 2014 and mainly used it for collecting events and log aggregation across the systems.