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KIP-1150: Diskless Kafka Topics
Authors: Greg Harris, Ivan Yurchenko, Jorge Quilcate, Giuseppe Lillo, Anatolii Popov, Juha Mynttinen, Josep Prat, Filip Yonov Status Current state: "Under Discussion" Discussion thread: here JIRA: KAFKA-19161 Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast). Motivation Describe the problems you are trying to solve.
Authors: Greg Harris, Ivan Yurchenko, Jorge Quilcate, Giuseppe Lillo, Anatolii Popov, Juha Mynttinen, Josep Prat, Filip Yonov Multiple protocol-compatible alternatives to Apache Kafka now use object storage to fully replace direct replication and substantially lower the cost to operate a cluster on a hyperscaler cloud. With Diskless Topics, Apache Kafka will become a streaming engine that supports a wide spectrum of latencies, balancing cost and performance for an extremely diverse set of workloads.
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