alt Hacker NewsHow does this solution differ from AutoMQ and WarpStream? I’ve worked with one of them, and it is indeed a serverless solution built on top of S3.
As far as I know, Kafka itself already supports offloading some data to S3 for long-term storage.
Based on the articles—which I didn't fully grasp—I’m wondering if there are additional benefits mentioned, such as multi-region distribution (though I find it hard to imagine how that would be implemented).
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alanfranz • today at 8:40 PM
Kafka also has inkless with diskless topics that run off object storage!
It’s built for Cloudflare ecosystem, IMO using K2 on its own doesn’t make sense. I’ve worked with a startup that uses Cloudflare for everything except for Kafka. If K2 were to exist back then, I’m pretty sure they would have used it.