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		ankitnayan on Oct 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle burs... Caching is to improve read performance whereas Kafka is used to handle ingest volume. I couldn't correlate the Grafana articles shared

blinded on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

Yep! Should have made that more clear. Brought it up as an example of other parts of the system that require scaling.

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