Re:Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka
by richieartoul on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:04PM
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(WarpStream co-founder)
The cache is for reads, not writes. There is no cache for writes.
We built our own because it needed to behave in a very specific way to meet our cost/latency goals. Running a MinIO sidecar instance means that every agent would effectively have to download every file in its entirety which would not scale well and would be expensive. We also have a pretty hard and fast rule about keeping deploying WarpStream as simple as rolling out a single stateless binary.
The cache is for reads, not writes. There is no cache for writes.
We built our own because it needed to behave in a very specific way to meet our cost/latency goals. Running a MinIO sidecar instance means that every agent would effectively have to download every file in its entirety which would not scale well and would be expensive. We also have a pretty hard and fast rule about keeping deploying WarpStream as simple as rolling out a single stateless binary.