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KIP-1150 Accepted, and the Road Ahead
KIP-1150's approval brings Diskless Topics to Apache Kafka, enabling compute-storage separation by shifting replication and storage from broker disks to cloud object storage. This transformation slashes total cost of ownership by up to 80%, eliminates inter-AZ replication traffic, and allows for instant elasticity without client changes. This major change positions Kafka as a truly cloud-native streaming standard.
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