Stories by enether

Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

Bufstream Sold to CoreWeave

Profile guided compiler optimization leads to 47% lower p99.9 in Redpanda

Ursa – a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka

Kafka Options Explorer

How KIP-881 and KIP-392 Reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka

Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying Confluent

Why Not?

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a Free T3.micro (AWS Free Tier)

When to Use a Columnar Database

Kafka is Topping Out (as a business)

No one will tell you the real cost of Kafka (2024)

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

Confluent Explores Sale

Sonnet 4.5 ranks #25 (below other Claude models) in generating SQL

Why Kafka and Iceberg Will Define the Next Decade of Data Infrastructure

Iceberg Topics for Kafka

Why was Apache Kafka created?

I Lowered the CO2 in My House

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