Comment by dangoodmanUT
7 months ago
i wouldn't say it was so good it got acquired by them, rather confluent had no s3-backed play and it was easier for them to acquire warpstream than to add it to kafka directly
warpstream has latency issues, which downstream turn into cost issues
That's a good point -- I assumed there were other choices, but now that I look, warpstream may have been the only already-kafka-compatible option.
That said, they were at least "good enough" to make "buy" more appealing than "build"
Confluent has "Freight" which is their integrated s3-backed play.