Re:Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro
by enether on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:55AM
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to be fair, Kafka now has a GraalVM docker image[0][1] which was made for local dev/testing, and it has caught up fairly well to these alternatives re: memory and startup time
[0] - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-974%3A... [1] - https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/kafka-native