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AppFolio Transforms Data Streaming with Amazon MSK Express Brokers

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AppFolio, a real estate performance management platform, migrated its data streaming architecture to Amazon MSK Express brokers, enhancing its high-throughput real-time applications. The move addressed previous challenges with manual storage planning, slow horizontal scaling, and the need for better workload isolation. This migration enabled automatic, pay-as-you-go storage, drastically reduced scaling times from hours to minutes, and provided dedicated resources for customer-facing and internal data flows. The company achieved a stable, high-performance streaming foundation with reduced operational overhead, even as data volumes continued to grow.

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  • AppFolio's Migration to Amazon MSK Express Brokers

    AppFolio transitioned its data streaming architecture to Amazon MSK Express brokers, segmenting clusters by workload type to overcome limitations of its previous MSK Standard setup. This enabled elastic storage, faster scaling from hours to minutes, and improved workload isolation for mission-critical real-time data processing. The migration resulted in reduced operational overhead and a more stable, scalable streaming foundation.

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