Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

1950.012 - 1976.091 Ryan Worrell

Really large, like way bigger than your individual application. So like you have the world's biggest RAID 0 of all the disks ever. It's actually unlimited. So think about it that way. But also oversubscribed. The latency characteristics of it are highly variable. One request might take 10 milliseconds, and the other takes 50. And there's no discernible reason to you why that is the case.