Thomas Beadle

Open source Apache Kafka has long been the backbone of real-time data streaming, but it’s traditionally come with a trade-off: keep expanding expensive broker storage or sacrifice historical data retention. With Kafka’s Tiered Storage, it’s a dilemma that’s finally fading (if you know what you’re doing). By offloading older data to cheaper cloud object storage while keeping recent data local for speed, tiered Storage transforms Kafka’s storage economics and unlocks new possibilities for developers. But