Building Kafka without Disks with Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl from WarpStream Labs
In this episode, We spoke with the founders of WarpStream Labs, Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl.
WarpStream is a fascinating rethink of Kafka -- how could you simplify and improve the Kafka design by slightly tweaking your constraints? The result is very compelling -- a Kafka-compatible API that bypasses local disk by writing everything directly to S3. For the tradeoff of a slightly higher end-to-end latency, you can get a Kafka cluster that's much cheaper and way easier to operate.
Richie and Ryan have been working on high-scale data systems for years and were the engineers behind Husky…
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