Kafka High Availability in multi data center setup with floating Observers

Phong has 17 years of experience with DB and Middleware products. This means good experience around installation, security patching, upgrades, migrations, tuning, backup / recovery and HA. He is able to build new platforms with a focus on scalability, security and self-service. He has a burning interest and understanding for the operation of business-critical applications. He has operated a wide range of Middleware technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Oracle Middleware products, Apache http/Tomcat server and Oracle LDAP. In recent years Phong has specialized in establishing strong operating regime around Kafka services. He supports customers with their day-to-day operations, health of the cluster, monitoring, upgrades and patching, managing resource and capacity planning. He has good knowledge of git repositories with Infrastructure as Code using Ansible and GitLab.