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A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka's Diskless Future


“ The Kafka community is currently seeing an unprecedented situation with three KIPs ( KIP-1150 , KIP-1176 , KIP-1183) simultaneously addressing the same challenge of high replication costs when running Kafka across multiple cloud availability zones. ” — Luke Chen, The Path Fo

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