Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

2660.084 - 2684.606 Ryan Worrell

So we can come in and say, hey, because of the way the cloud providers don't charge you for bandwidth between VMs and object storage, and we store all the data in object storage, that means you're going to save this many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on sending the dumb application logs that you're generating into the eventual downstream storage, that makes a lot of sense to them.