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Re:Can you build observability ingestion on S3 alone – no Ka... by malandin on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:51PM (#48823564)
It is an interesting idea. What troubles me is the read/write rate in a real production environment. If it is bound by S3, a buffer will eventually be needed and then it all become very complicated. At least it is how it looks on the surface
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Re:Can you build observability ingestion on S3 alone – no Ka... by mineev on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:06PM (#48823758)
You are right, the time of a single write/read is Achilles' heel. But if we are talking about parallel processing it can keeps several hundreds milliseconds delay and provides enormous throughput.
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