I joined Aiven as a Developer Advocate in May, shortly after the Kafka Improvement Proposal KIP-1150: Diskless Topics was announced, which is reduces the total cost of ownership of Kafka by up to 80%! It was very exciting to join Aiven just as the streaming team were making this major contribution to open source but I wanted to take my time to understand the KIP before sharing my thoughts.
In this article I’ll share my first impressions of Diskless Kafka, walk you through a simple example you can use to experiment with Diskless, and highlight some of the great resources that are out there for learning about the topic. First though, what actually is Diskless Kafka?
Click through for that answer, as well as more.