A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka's Diskless Future
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The article discusses the potential future direction of Apache Kafka, specifically the possibility of a 'diskless' architecture, and the community is generally supportive of exploring this change.
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skywhopper
2 months ago
Interesting. This is an issue that was clear with Kafka’s design in a cloud context eight years ago at least. Glad to see they are finally tackling it.
delifue
2 months ago
The "diskless" is actually replacing disk with S3
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