Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

1281.158 - 1303.606 Ryan Worrell

Yeah, the way that I like to explain that, the networking cost side, is that when you're renting space in a colo or you have your own data center, you're implicitly paying for what is kind of a fixed capacity resource. It has a very high fixed capacity, but you are essentially paying for a resource that has a fixed capacity without doing a bunch of capital improvements to your data center.