DigitalOcean has announced a new feature for its Managed Kafka service, Horizontal Scaling, which enables customers to handle increasing data volumes and traffic by adding more nodes to their existing clusters. This allows for improved performance, scalability on demand, enhanced resilience, fault tolerance, and improved reliability. With this new feature, customers can right-provision nodes/brokers in alignment with fluctuating workload requirements, ensuring peak workload performance. The service also includes Scalable Storage, which enables customers to add more storage with a single setting, priced at just $2/month per increment. This allows for increased disk storage capacity and Kafka Clusters now have more storage options, scaling up to 1.5 TB of storage.