Kafka Passthrough Benchmarks

These benchmarks measure what Zilla Plus adds as a proxy between Kafka clients and a Kafka cluster when it forwards records unchanged. Each benchmark runs the same workload against one Kafka service, once with clients connected directly and once through Zilla Plus.

Benchmarks

Apache Kafka Passthrough Benchmark

Zilla Plus in front of Apache Kafka, with lower publish and end-to-end tail latency than connecting to Kafka directly.

Confluent Cloud Passthrough Benchmark

Zilla Plus in front of Confluent Cloud, adding under 3 ms of publish latency at p99.