Richard Artoul
February 8, 2024

Anatomy of a serverless usage based billing system

Serverless products and usage based billing models go hand in hand, almost by definition. A product that is truly serverless effectively has to have usage based pricing, otherwise it’s not really serverless!
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Richard Artoul
November 28, 2023

S3 Express is All You Need

The future of modern data infrastructure is object storage.
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Richard Artoul
November 18, 2023

Unlocking Idempotency with Retroactive Tombstones

How we separated data from metadata to build support for idempotent producers in our Apache Kafka protocol layer.
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Richard Artoul
October 9, 2023

Minimizing S3 API Costs with Distributed mmap

We first introduced WarpStream in our blog post: "Kafka is Dead, Long Live Kafka", but to summarize: WarpStream is a Kafka protocol compatible data streaming system built directly on top of object storage.
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Richard Artoul
September 18, 2023

Hacking the Kafka PRoTocOL

How we built stateless load balancing into a protocol that was never designed for it.
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Richard Artoul
July 25, 2023

Kafka is dead, long live Kafka

Chances are you probably had a strong reaction to the title of this post. In our experience, Kafka is one of the most polarizing technologies in the data space. Some people hate it, some people swear by it, but almost every technology company uses it.
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