API-FIRST APPROACH TO KAFKA TOPIC CREATION

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

DoorDash's Engineering teams have improved Kafka Topic creation with an in-house API that has significantly reduced the time it takes to onboard real-time pipelines by 95% and saved developer hours. The Real-Time Streaming Platform (RTSP) team at DoorDash manages over 2,500 Kafka Topics across five clusters, processing nearly six billion messages per day. The new architecture automates Kafka resource creation, integrates with internal infrastructure services, and leverages super-user accounts to streamline the process.