Why Diskless Is a Game-Changer for Running Kafka at Scale

Apache Kafka is one of the most commonly used stream-processing applications. Its high performance, low latency and open source license are just some of the reasons 80% of Fortune 100 enterprises use Kafka to power event-driven applications and deliver resilient data pipelines.

But when you start working with massive amounts of high-velocity data, you quickly run into cost, operational and complexity problems. For cloud native businesses, high replication costs when running Kafka across multiple cloud availability zones are a very serious…