Kafka tiered storage deep dive

Tiered storage is a new early access feature available as of Apache Kafka 3.6.0 that allows you to scale compute and storage resources independently, provides better client isolation, and allows faster maintenance of your Kafka cluster. Let's dive into this new feature to see the motivations, design, and implementation details. In this post, we will focus on Tiered storage implementation, so it is assumed a good understanding of the Kafka architecture and main components. If you are looking for ...