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Kafka-compatible streaming on top of S3.

Message queue
Our review

What we like

Stateless streaming with no partitions to manage - scale by adding more agents (running in containers). Works with S3 and compatible object storage. Kafka-protocol compatible for drop-in replacement. Avoids inter-zone networking to minimize network costs. Avoids data loss by waiting for writes to object storage to succeed before returning.

What we don't like

End to end producer to consumer p99 latency of ~1 sec. Schema validation & autoscaling in beta.

Reviewed: 2024-09-05

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