Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

1325.671 - 1350.565 Ryan Worrell

And especially in terms of how spiky you can do it, like you can write 100 gigabytes a second for one minute never pay Amazon any money again. They have to do some capacity planning on their end, just like they do for every other service and why they charge higher on-demand rates for EC2 instances than if you go and buy a random server off the internet and put it in your house.