Paul Brebner extends a metaphor:
I’ve been tracking the progress of Apache Kafka “Diskless Topics” for a while now. It’s a topic that sparks curiosity—mostly because the name itself sounds like an oxymoron. How can a topic be diskless? Where does the data go?
With the recent voting on KIP-1150, I decided it was time to dive deep into the architectural changes. There are several related Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) floating around, but KIP-1150 is dependent on KIP-1163 and KIP-1164, and the designs are still in flux. Consider this blog post a “theory” in the true scientific sense: a best-guess model based on current evidence that will almost certainly evolve.
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