From Infrastructure Burden to Scalable Streaming: Lessons from Migrating Off Hosted Kafka

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

10 AM PST | 1 PM EST | 10 AM BST | 10:30 AM IST | 1 PM SGT | 3 PM AEST

How SecurityScorecard saved $1M+ (in TCO) while amplifying data processing by 100x

Hosted Kafka solutions promise simplicity and cost savings. But many teams discover hidden operational costs that don't appear on cloud bills: engineers pulled away from feature development for manual upgrades, days spent troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure complexity that scales poorly with business needs.

If your team is facing similar challenges—or if you're evaluating whether to migrate from hosted Kafka—this webinar is designed for you.

Join Brandon Brown, Senior Software Engineer at SecurityScorecard, as he shares the technical and business realities of their migration from hosted Kafka to Confluent Cloud. You'll get practical insights from a real migration experience, learn about the challenges they faced and how they overcame them, and discover lessons that could help inform your own infrastructure decisions.

What You'll Take Away

• Uncover Hidden Costs: Identify the operational expenses of hosted Kafka that don't appear on your cloud bill
• See Real Results: Learn how SecurityScorecard achieved $1M+ in total savings through migration and optimization
• Performance Transformation: Understand the leap from processing data in days to real-time streaming
• Migration Strategies: Get practical approaches for planning and executing your own migration

What SecurityScorecard Achieved – And What You Can Too

• Dramatic Cost Reduction: 48% reduction in projected annual operating costs
• Massive Scale Improvements: 100x amplification in data ingestion and processing
• Vendor Consolidation Savings: $1M+ savings from operational efficiency improvements
• Real-Time Processing: Eliminated week-long batch jobs for instant insights

"I definitely saved days of management every week just by not having to do anything to make sure our Connect cluster is working. With Confluent Cloud, it just works." — Brandon Brown, SecurityScorecard

Can't attend live? Register anyway to receive the recording and resources.

Bonus: New Confluent Cloud users who register for this webinar can claim $400 in free credits for a 30-day trial—perfect for testing your own migration from hosted Kafka. Details in your registration confirmation email.

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