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Why Confluent’s WarpStream Acquisition Reinforces Object Storage as the Future of Data Streaming

on Streaming 19 September 2024

Why Confluent’s WarpStream Acquisition Reinforces Object Storage as the Future of Data Streaming

Confluent's WarpStream acquisition highlights the future of data streaming built on object storage. WarpStream’s cloud-native design cuts costs by 85% over traditional Kafka. Believe the hype: object storage drives low-cost, scalable performance.

Building on the Lessons from Kafka: How AutoMQ and MinIO Solve Cost and Elasticity Challenges

Brenna Buuck Brenna Buuck

on Apache Kafka 30 July 2024

Building on the Lessons from Kafka: How AutoMQ and MinIO Solve Cost and Elasticity Challenges

AutoMQ enhances Kafka's architecture by using MinIO's object storage, cutting costs, and boosting elasticity while keeping Kafka API compatibility. This combo offers scalable, secure, and efficient data streaming, ideal for diverse cloud environments.