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Expert Apache Kafka Consulting & Kafka Solutions for the Enterprise

Apache Kafka powers modern, event-driven architectures with high-throughput, fault-tolerant data streaming at scale. Whether you rely on open-source Apache Kafka or are considering premium offerings like Confluent, our consulting services ensure that your Kafka implementation runs at peak performance while meeting your business goals — from real-time analytics and ETL pipelines to microservices communication and data streaming. Our Kafka consulting team delivers expert guidance for open-source Kafka users and enterprise platform deployments alike, backed by 24/7 Kafka support from senior engineers who respond in 15 minutes.

11+ Senior SMEs<15min Emergency SLA130+ Customers26+ Countries Served

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Our Capabilities

Apache Kafka Consulting & Support

A quick look at our core Apache Kafka practice areas — click any to explore the full scope.

Kafka Consulting Services

We design Kafka deployments that handle millions of messages per second with the durability, ordering, and replay guarantees your use case demands.

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Data Streaming Solutions

From simple producer/consumer patterns to complex event-driven architectures — we build streaming pipelines that are reliable, observable, and easy to operate.

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Cloud & Managed Kafka Services

Whether you're migrating to the cloud or running managed Kafka, we plan and execute with zero message loss and full operational continuity.

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Kafka Performance Tuning & Throughput Optimization

Saturating your brokers or seeing consumer lag accumulate? Our engineers have optimized Kafka clusters from 10K to 10M messages/second and know where the bottlenecks hide.

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Confluent Platform & Enterprise Kafka Offerings

Thinking about Kafka offerings like Confluent? If you're considering the Confluent Platform or managed Kafka solutions, we'll help you unlock their advanced features and determine whether they're the right fit for your use case.

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Expert Guidance for Open-Source Kafka Users

Using Apache Kafka? Get the support you need to manage the complexity of high-performance event streaming. Running Apache Kafka community edition or Kafka non-commercial support? Our team provides the same expert-level guidance for open-source deployments that enterprises pay premium prices for.

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Kafka Migration & Platform Modernization

Moving from a legacy message broker to Kafka, or migrating between Kafka distributions? We plan and execute migrations with zero message loss and minimal downtime.

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24/7 Apache Kafka Support

15 MIN SLA

Direct access to a senior Apache Kafka engineer — no ticket queues, no junior triage, 24 hours a day.

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Customer Success

Real Apache Kafka Results

See how enterprises trust AceMQ for their most critical Apache Kafka workloads.

All use cases
🏭Consulting

Real-Time Manufacturing Data Ingestion Modernization

Global Automotive Manufacturer

Replacing fragile SQL-trigger-based ingestion with a reliable event-driven architecture for plant-floor data movement and low-latency operations.

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📈Assessment

Middleware Architecture Assessment for Financial Trading

European Online Trading Platform

Independent architecture and performance review of RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Redis for an online trading platform.

RabbitMQKafkaRedis
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🏥Consulting

Replacing Kafka with Debezium + RabbitMQ for Change Data Capture

American National Insurance

American National Insurance replaced a Kafka-based CDC pipeline with a standalone Debezium + RabbitMQ architecture, simplifying operations while maintaining SQL Server change capture with improved message routing flexibility.

KafkaRabbitMQDebezium+1
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⚙️CVE Patching

Kafka CVE Patching and Compliance Strategy for Global Enterprise

Global Technology Enterprise

AceMQ developed a multi-technology compliance strategy covering CVE patching for Kafka alongside RabbitMQ and IBM MQ deployments, creating a unified vulnerability management approach across the entire enterprise messaging stack.

KafkaRabbitMQIBM MQ
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💳Support

High-Throughput Kafka and RabbitMQ Support for Global Payments

PagoNXT (Financial Technology)

AceMQ provided ongoing support for PagoNXT's high-throughput payments infrastructure running Kafka and RabbitMQ at 2,500 transactions per second, including load testing validation and architecture optimization.

KafkaRabbitMQ
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🌐Assessment

Kafka Architecture Assessment and Migration Advisory

Enterprise Organizations

AceMQ's Kafka assessment service evaluates streaming architecture health, identifies operational risks, and provides a structured migration or modernization roadmap for enterprises running or evaluating Kafka.

Kafka
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💳Architecture Advisory

Enterprise Migration from IBM MQ to Kafka and RabbitMQ

Enterprise Financial Services Organizations

AceMQ advises enterprises transitioning IBM MQ workloads to modern messaging platforms, routing workloads to Kafka for event streaming or RabbitMQ for transactional messaging based on specific use case requirements.

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⚙️Architecture Advisory

IBM MQ Displacement Strategy for Global Enterprise

Global Technology Enterprise

AceMQ and a global technology partner developed a joint motion for displacing IBM MQ in enterprise accounts, leveraging RabbitMQ as a cost-effective open-source alternative with AceMQ's commercial support model.

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Our Expertise

Why Choose Our Apache Kafka Support & Consulting

Senior engineers on every engagement — no juniors, no escalation tiers, no offshore routing.

11+

Senior SMEs

<15min

Emergency SLA

130+

Customers

26+

Countries Served

Certified Kafka Professionals

Our engineers hold deep, production-proven Kafka expertise spanning open-source Kafka consulting, Kafka migration, and Kafka upgrade projects.

Tailored Kafka Solutions

We provide Kafka non-commercial support, community edition support, and enterprise platform guidance — tailored to your team's specific requirements.

Comprehensive Kafka Support

Kafka 24/7 support, emergency troubleshooting, break/fix, and remediation — we stay engaged until the root cause is found and the cluster is stable.

Enterprise-Grade Management

Managed Kafka professional services including Kafka healthcheck programs, broker health reviews, capacity planning, and quarterly optimization audits.

High-Throughput Streaming

We tune Kafka clusters to sustain millions of messages per second with predictable latency under peak load and proven success across industries.

Rapid Response & Crisis Management

Production Kafka incident? Our team provides rapid response, root cause analysis, and crisis management to stabilize and fully recover your cluster.

Proven Success

Trusted globally for improving performance, resilience, and operational efficiency in Kafka environments. We ensure your Kafka environment is secure, scalable, and resilient.

Our Solutions

Apache Kafka Service Offerings

Every engagement is handled by a senior Apache Kafka engineer from kickoff to resolution.

We design Kafka deployments that handle millions of messages per second with the durability, ordering, and replay guarantees your use case demands.

  • Topic partitioning strategy and replication factor design
  • Broker sizing: storage, memory, network throughput modeling
  • KRaft vs ZooKeeper mode selection and migration
  • Multi-datacenter replication with MirrorMaker 2
  • Security: TLS, SASL/SCRAM, ACL policy design

From simple producer/consumer patterns to complex event-driven architectures — we build streaming pipelines that are reliable, observable, and easy to operate.

  • Real-time analytics pipelines and ETL stream processing
  • Event-driven systems and microservices integration
  • Kafka Streams and ksqlDB application development
  • Schema Registry integration and Avro/Protobuf schema design
  • Dead-letter queue patterns and exactly-once semantics (EOS)

Whether you're migrating to the cloud or running managed Kafka, we plan and execute with zero message loss and full operational continuity.

  • Cloud migration: self-hosted to Confluent Cloud, Amazon MSK, or Azure Event Hubs
  • Multi-region deployments and cross-datacenter replication
  • Managed Kafka guidance and operational runbooks
  • 24/7 monitoring with consumer lag alerting and broker health checks
  • Custom SLAs, upgrades, patching, and capacity management

Saturating your brokers or seeing consumer lag accumulate? Our engineers have optimized Kafka clusters from 10K to 10M messages/second and know where the bottlenecks hide.

  • Producer batching, linger.ms, and compression tuning
  • Consumer group rebalancing optimization
  • Log compaction and retention policy tuning
  • Network and disk I/O profiling per broker
  • JVM GC tuning for low-pause broker operation

Thinking about Kafka offerings like Confluent? If you're considering the Confluent Platform or managed Kafka solutions, we'll help you unlock their advanced features and determine whether they're the right fit for your use case.

  • Enhanced functionality: Schema Registry, ksqlDB, Kafka Connectors
  • Enterprise-grade security: role-based access control (RBAC) and end-to-end encryption
  • Expert Confluent implementation: tailored consulting and ongoing enterprise support
  • Cloud or hybrid deployments: transition to managed services without downtime
  • Confluent licensing guidance and open-source vs. enterprise trade-off analysis

Using Apache Kafka? Get the support you need to manage the complexity of high-performance event streaming. Running Apache Kafka community edition or Kafka non-commercial support? Our team provides the same expert-level guidance for open-source deployments that enterprises pay premium prices for.

  • Performance optimization for open-source Apache Kafka clusters
  • Scalable architecture design: partitioning, replication, ISR tuning
  • Real-time troubleshooting for consumer lag, under-replicated partitions, and broker failures
  • 24/7 emergency escalation support for Kafka community edition
  • Security enhancements: TLS, SASL, ACL hardening for open-source deployments

Moving from a legacy message broker to Kafka, or migrating between Kafka distributions? We plan and execute migrations with zero message loss and minimal downtime.

  • ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, or IBM MQ to Kafka migration
  • Self-hosted to Confluent Cloud or MSK migration
  • ZooKeeper to KRaft migration planning
  • Offset translation and consumer group migration
  • Canary traffic cutover with automatic rollback
24/7 Support

Apache Kafka Support
When It Matters Most

Direct access to senior engineers — 15-minute emergency response, no ticket routing, no junior triage.

15 min

Emergency

1 hour

Critical

4 hours

High

Next Day

Standard

How Our Support Actually Works

Beyond SLAs — the model behind senior-only, zero-cold-start expert access.

Named Engineers on Your Account

Every ticket is handled by a senior SME assigned to your account — not a pool of anonymous agents. Zero cold-start. No re-explaining your environment.

Live Escalation on Any Ticket

Any ticket can be escalated to a live session with your named engineer via calendar booking. No gatekeeping, no approval required — direct access, always.

Proactive Risk Mitigation

Quarterly health checks on your deployment plus shared intelligence from 50+ support customers — we surface risks before they reach production.

Critical Bug & CVE Intelligence

Proactive alerts on critical bugs and CVEs affecting your exact version, with version compliance monitoring so you're never caught off guard.

Licensing & Security Edge

Dedicated support for vendor license negotiations and compliance audits, plus bi-annual security reviews focused on your specific deployment.

Direct Product Roadmap Access

As the only vendor directly connected to the core engineering teams, AceMQ delivers exclusive early insights, strategic upgrade planning, and curated release summaries — tailored to your environment.

We Support Your Entire Tech Stack

AceMQ covers the full infrastructure surrounding Apache Kafka — so you have one expert team for your connected environment.

Message Brokers & Event Streaming

Apache KafkaRabbitMQActiveMQAmazon SQSGoogle Pub/SubIBM MQ

Datastores & Caching

RedisElasticacheMongoDBMemcachedPostgreSQLMySQL

Observability & Monitoring

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackDatadogNew RelicSplunk

Cloud & Container Orchestration

KubernetesDockerAWS LambdaAzure Functions

API Management & Integration

KongApigeeMulesoftWSO2

VMware Tanzu

GreenPlumGemFireSpringValkeyPostgres
FAQs

Apache Kafka Support FAQs

Common questions about Apache Kafka consulting, support, and migrations.

Our Apache Kafka consulting covers cluster architecture design, broker sizing, streaming pipeline development, performance tuning, security hardening, and migration planning. Every Kafka consulting engagement is staffed by a senior engineer with deep, production-proven expertise in both open-source Kafka and enterprise platforms like Confluent.

Yes. We provide full-lifecycle Kafka consulting and Kafka professional services for open-source Apache Kafka (community edition) — the same expert-level guidance we give enterprise platform users. This includes Kafka non-commercial support, emergency troubleshooting, break/fix, remediation, Kafka healthcheck reviews, and upgrades.

A Kafka healthcheck is a structured review of your cluster's current state covering broker configuration, topic design, replication factor, consumer group lag, security posture, and monitoring gaps. We deliver a written report with prioritized remediation steps. Many teams run healthchecks quarterly or after major changes to catch issues before they cause production incidents.

Yes. We work across all major Kafka distributions: open-source Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform and Cloud, Amazon MSK, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka protocol), and Aiven for Kafka. We're distribution-agnostic and recommend the right platform for your requirements.

Absolutely. We design and develop stateful stream processing applications with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, including state store optimization, interactive queries, and exactly-once semantics configuration.

We start with consumer lag metrics and under-replicated partition counts to isolate the problem layer. Our rapid response process covers immediate stabilization, root cause analysis, and crisis management — we stay engaged until the cluster is fully recovered and the root cause is documented.

Yes. Our managed Kafka support includes 24/7 monitoring, consumer lag alerting, broker health checks, version upgrades, capacity planning, and direct access to senior engineers for incidents and architecture questions. We support full lifecycle Kafka consulting from initial architecture through ongoing operations.

Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It enables high-throughput data processing and can handle large-scale, fault-tolerant data streaming.

Kafka provides a scalable and efficient way to handle large volumes of data streams, making it ideal for applications like real-time analytics, event sourcing, and log aggregation. It ensures high availability and resilience in complex environments.

Absolutely! Our team has extensive experience working with Kafka, from setting up clusters to optimizing and troubleshooting performance issues. We can help ensure your Kafka deployment meets your specific requirements.

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Don't let Kafka complexities slow your business. Whether you need Kafka community edition support, Kafka open source support, guidance on enterprise platforms like Confluent, or a full lifecycle Kafka consulting partner — AceMQ delivers. From Kafka professional services and Kafka healthchecks to Kafka migration, emergency troubleshooting, and upgrades, we ensure your Kafka environment is secure, scalable, and resilient.

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