Published onApril 27, 2026Why LinkedIn Is Moving Beyond Kafka: Lessons From 400K Topics and 32 Trillion EventsSystem-DesignKafkaDistributed-SystemsLinkedInStreaming-ArchitectureData-EngineeringExplore why LinkedIn outgrew Apache Kafka, the metadata and scaling bottlenecks they hit at 32 trillion events per day, and how their next-gen architecture solves the problem.