Apache Kafka Embraces Cloud-Native Efficiency: Diskless Topics
Apache Kafka has become the go-to solution for building scalable, real-time data pipelines. But its traditional reliance on local disk I/O and intra-cluster replication often comes at a steep operational and financial cost — especially in cloud-native environments. Enter KIP-1150: Diskless Topics, a proposal led and open-sourced by Aiven, that radically simplifies Kafka’s architecture by…