LinkedIn Announces Northguard and Xinfra: Scaling Beyond Kafka for Log Storage and Pub/Sub

ByEran Stiller
Illustration of new segments in Northguard getting added to the range and get assigned to potentially new brokers

LinkedIn today announced Northguard, a scalable log storage system that replaces Kafka, and Xinfra, a virtualized Pub/Sub layer. Northguard delivers sharded data & metadata, log striping, strong consistency, and self-balancing clusters at a larger scale than Kafka, while Xinfra enables seamless migration and unified access across Kafka and Northguard.

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