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How PayPal scaled Kafka to handle 1+ Trillion of daily events. Plus using geoDNS and edge cache to build systems reaching a global audience.

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Franco Fernando
Oct 07, 2023
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Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 41th edition of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

Last week I read a very interesting blog post on the PayPal engineering blog and it would be great to discuss about it with you. In addition we will see how a possible way to scale a website so that it can support a global audience like Amazon or Uber.

The outline will be as f…

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