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QCon London 2026: Introducing Tansu.io - Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations
Tansu.io introduces a Kafka-compatible, stateless messaging broker where durability shifts entirely to external storage, radically reducing broker memory footprint (~20MB) and enabling instant scale-to-zero deployments within 10ms. With pluggable storage backends (S3, SQLite, or direct Postgres), Tansu simplifies streaming pipelines by writing validated records (Avro, JSON, or Protobuf) directly to open table formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake, and eliminates the transactional outbox. Code available on GitHub.
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