Kafka is the bedrock of Wix’s distributed Mega Microservices system. Over the years we have learned a lot about how to successfully scale our event-driven architecture to roughly 1400 mostly Scala microservices. In this talk, you will learn about 10 key decisions and steps you can take in order to safely scale-up your Kafka-based system. These Include: * How to increase dev velocity of event-driven style code. * How to optimize working with Kafka in polyglot setting * How to migrate from request-reply to event-driven * How to tackle multiple DCs environment.