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Aug 23, 2022 · Big Data

How Meituan Scaled Kafka to 15k Nodes and Overcame Latency & Management Challenges

Meituan’s data platform uses Kafka as a unified cache and distribution layer, and as the cluster grew beyond 15,000 brokers and daily traffic exceeded 30 PB, the team tackled slow nodes, read/write latency, large‑scale cluster management, full‑link monitoring, service lifecycle, and future cloud‑native deployment challenges.