Yeva Byzek has a few whitepaper recommendations:
Over the years, incredible technical content has been written about data plane performance, general principles and tradeoffs, cloud-native architectures, etc. These writings describe how you can get low latency and high throughput without compromising on a mature and reliable platform that provides persistence, no data loss, audit logs, processing logs, and more—all the things that enable you to go from proof of concept to production. This blog post highlights the top five reading recommendations to help you gain a deeper understanding of what makes applications that run on Confluent Cloud so fast. They cover the key concepts and provide concrete examples of how we do it, and how you can do it too, with specific benchmark testing and configuration guidelines.
Click through for links to those resources.