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!
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.
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.