Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka

Re:Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka by slantedview on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:37PM (#37036836)

This article seems to be spreading some FUD, in particular this comment:

> Cloud economics – by design, Kafka’s replication strategy will rack up massive inter AZ bandwidth costs.

You're no more or less forced to put Kafka replicas in different AZs than you would be with an alternative.

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Re:Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka by richieartoul on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:40PM (#37036890)

(WarpStream Founder) That's fair, but we think people shouldn't have to choose between multiple AZs and costs. All cloud providers recommend that critical workloads running in cloud environments should run in more than one AZ.

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Re:Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka by crimsonpowder on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:02PM (#37037247)

Of course, as soon as an AZ goes down that had all of your Kafka nodes in it, you get eviscerated on HN for running such a setup.

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Re:Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka by EdwardDiego on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:48PM (#37041415)

3 AZ Kafka is the safest, but I've run several 2.5 clusters just fine. (cluster stretched across 2 AZs with a tiebreaker ZK in a 3rd AZ to maintain quorum in the event that you lose an AZ)

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