Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

5352.714 - 5380.104 Ryan Worrell

It's just that for our particular market and the strategy that we were pursuing, it just wasn't going to be, I think I can put it a little bit more crisply. The segment of the market that we're going after is already price and cost sensitive. If we offered them the opportunity to run our product for free, the odds that we will be able to charge them almost any money would be pretty low.