WarpStream
@warpstream.com
WarpStream is a diskless, Apache Kafka®-compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage: zero disks, zero inter-AZ fees, zero access.
Cloud disks are expensive. Really expensive. Most engineers intuitively understand this, but the magnitudes are worth considering 👉 buff.ly/48VFcVV
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cloud disks are expensive. Really expensive. Most engineers intuitively understand this, but the magnitudes are worth considering 👉 buff.ly/48VFcVV
The phases of cloud infrastructure:
1️⃣ Software is given away. Add-ons sold.
2️⃣ Cloud migration. Costs went up instead of down.
3️⃣ Lift and shift BYOC with lots of fees.
Learn how WarpStream was developed as cloud-first to solve these issues.
1️⃣ Software is given away. Add-ons sold.
2️⃣ Cloud migration. Costs went up instead of down.
3️⃣ Lift and shift BYOC with lots of fees.
Learn how WarpStream was developed as cloud-first to solve these issues.
The Original Sin of Cloud Infrastructure
Many of today's most highly adopted open source “big data” infrastructure projects – like Cassandra, Kafka, Hadoop, etc. – follow a common story. A large company, startup or otherwise, faces a…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The phases of cloud infrastructure:
1️⃣ Software is given away. Add-ons sold.
2️⃣ Cloud migration. Costs went up instead of down.
3️⃣ Lift and shift BYOC with lots of fees.
Learn how WarpStream was developed as cloud-first to solve these issues.
1️⃣ Software is given away. Add-ons sold.
2️⃣ Cloud migration. Costs went up instead of down.
3️⃣ Lift and shift BYOC with lots of fees.
Learn how WarpStream was developed as cloud-first to solve these issues.
WarpStream Agent Groups isolate workloads within the same Kafka environment, enabling consistent performance, simplified operations, and seamless scalability, without sacrificing flexibility or blowing your budget. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/VgrsF0r
How WarpStream Agent Groups help with Kafka demand spikes
https://www.warpstream.com/agent-groups | Viktor Gamov is at the lightboard to illustrate how WarpStream Agent Groups help Apache Kafka during unpredictable demand spikes. While traditional Kafka…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
WarpStream Agent Groups isolate workloads within the same Kafka environment, enabling consistent performance, simplified operations, and seamless scalability, without sacrificing flexibility or blowing your budget. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/VgrsF0r
Learn how WarpStream leverages Antithesis to do deterministic simulation testing for our entire SaaS — from sign up to creating a virtual cluster to producing and consuming data, and why we chose it over Jepsen.
Deterministic Simulation Testing for Our Entire SaaS
How we leverage Antithesis to deterministically simulate our entire SaaS platform and verify its correctness, all the way from signup to running entire Kafka workloads.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Learn how WarpStream leverages Antithesis to do deterministic simulation testing for our entire SaaS — from sign up to creating a virtual cluster to producing and consuming data, and why we chose it over Jepsen.
WarpStream Tableflow is the easiest, cheapest, and most flexible way to convert Kafka topic data into Iceberg tables with low latency, and keep them compacted. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/2FbyQWe
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
WarpStream Tableflow is the easiest, cheapest, and most flexible way to convert Kafka topic data into Iceberg tables with low latency, and keep them compacted. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/2FbyQWe
@superwall.bsky.social moves 100 MiB/s of events from @warpstream.com int @clickhouse.com Cloud, feeding a dataset of over 300 TB of total data that’s growing by 40 TB each month. WarpStream reduced Superwall's Kafka bill by 57%. Read the case study 👉 buff.ly/BzICDMu
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@superwall.bsky.social moves 100 MiB/s of events from @warpstream.com int @clickhouse.com Cloud, feeding a dataset of over 300 TB of total data that’s growing by 40 TB each month. WarpStream reduced Superwall's Kafka bill by 57%. Read the case study 👉 buff.ly/BzICDMu
WarpStream maintains the same ordering and idempotency guarantees as Kafka. Learn how we do this and how it enables our Agents to massively parallelize writes.
Unlocking Idempotency with Retroactive Tombstones
How we separated data from metadata to build support for idempotent producers in our Apache Kafka protocol layer.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
WarpStream maintains the same ordering and idempotency guarantees as Kafka. Learn how we do this and how it enables our Agents to massively parallelize writes.
What are the benefits of WarpStream Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), and why is zero better?
💾 Zero disks.
💸 Zero interzone networking fees.
📊 Zero ops auto-scaling.
🔒 Zero access.
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💾 Zero disks.
💸 Zero interzone networking fees.
📊 Zero ops auto-scaling.
🔒 Zero access.
buff.ly/rDmo83L
WarpStream Current 2024 Keynote: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Check out our keynote from Confluent's Current 2024. Richard Artoul talked about the benefits of WarpStream BYOC and why zero is better:
✅ Zero disks
✅ Zero interzone networking fees
✅ Zero ops…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What are the benefits of WarpStream Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), and why is zero better?
💾 Zero disks.
💸 Zero interzone networking fees.
📊 Zero ops auto-scaling.
🔒 Zero access.
buff.ly/rDmo83L
💾 Zero disks.
💸 Zero interzone networking fees.
📊 Zero ops auto-scaling.
🔒 Zero access.
buff.ly/rDmo83L
WarpStream is designed to look and feel exactly like a Kafka cluster, but it has a different implementation and architecture. Because our Agents are stateless, we have to square a circle. We explain how we did that.
Hacking the Kafka PRoTocOL
How we built stateless load balancing into a protocol that was never designed for it.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
WarpStream is designed to look and feel exactly like a Kafka cluster, but it has a different implementation and architecture. Because our Agents are stateless, we have to square a circle. We explain how we did that.
Join @warpstream.com and @grafana.bsky.social for a Meetup on December 9 in Austin, TX.
🔐 Learn how WarpStream's zero-access BYOC model guarantees is secure by default.
🤖 Learn about Grafana Labs AI assistant.
Register 👉 buff.ly/C46DTLC
🔐 Learn how WarpStream's zero-access BYOC model guarantees is secure by default.
🤖 Learn about Grafana Labs AI assistant.
Register 👉 buff.ly/C46DTLC
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Join @warpstream.com and @grafana.bsky.social for a Meetup on December 9 in Austin, TX.
🔐 Learn how WarpStream's zero-access BYOC model guarantees is secure by default.
🤖 Learn about Grafana Labs AI assistant.
Register 👉 buff.ly/C46DTLC
🔐 Learn how WarpStream's zero-access BYOC model guarantees is secure by default.
🤖 Learn about Grafana Labs AI assistant.
Register 👉 buff.ly/C46DTLC
WarpStream supports compacted topics. In this blog, we go over:
🤔 What compacted topics are.
🛠️ Why they're challenging to implement.
🗜️ How they work in Kafka.
👍 How they work in WarpStream (with an unexpected benefit).
🤔 What compacted topics are.
🛠️ Why they're challenging to implement.
🗜️ How they work in Kafka.
👍 How they work in WarpStream (with an unexpected benefit).
Kafka as a KV Store: deduplicating millions of keys with just 128 MiB of RAM
A huge part of building a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka® was implementing support for compacted topics. The primary difference between a “regular” topic in Kafka and a “compacted” topic is…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
WarpStream supports compacted topics. In this blog, we go over:
🤔 What compacted topics are.
🛠️ Why they're challenging to implement.
🗜️ How they work in Kafka.
👍 How they work in WarpStream (with an unexpected benefit).
🤔 What compacted topics are.
🛠️ Why they're challenging to implement.
🗜️ How they work in Kafka.
👍 How they work in WarpStream (with an unexpected benefit).
Pixel Federation was using AWS MSK, and their Kafka bill was growing faster than their data volumes. Switching to @warpstream.com cut their bill and simplified operations.
Pixel Federation Powers Mobile Analytics Platform with WarpStream
Pixel Federation is the developer of nearly a dozen highly popular mobile games with players from all over the world. They have millions of monthly active users, and those millions of users generate…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Pixel Federation was using AWS MSK, and their Kafka bill was growing faster than their data volumes. Switching to @warpstream.com cut their bill and simplified operations.
With the buzz around diskless Kafka, it's worth revisiting our launch blog. WarpStream was built with zero disks and object storage in mind from the start to simplify operations and reduce costs ➡️ buff.ly/eT8OuPZ
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
With the buzz around diskless Kafka, it's worth revisiting our launch blog. WarpStream was built with zero disks and object storage in mind from the start to simplify operations and reduce costs ➡️ buff.ly/eT8OuPZ
Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on November 19 at 6 p.m. PST hosted by Salesforce. Hear from:
@ryan.belgrave.me, Staff Software Engineer I, WarpStream
Dan O'Reilly, Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Register at buff.ly/xG42tT4
@ryan.belgrave.me, Staff Software Engineer I, WarpStream
Dan O'Reilly, Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Register at buff.ly/xG42tT4
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on November 19 at 6 p.m. PST hosted by Salesforce. Hear from:
@ryan.belgrave.me, Staff Software Engineer I, WarpStream
Dan O'Reilly, Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Register at buff.ly/xG42tT4
@ryan.belgrave.me, Staff Software Engineer I, WarpStream
Dan O'Reilly, Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Register at buff.ly/xG42tT4
Character.AI uses @warpstream.com to power:
☁️ A 3 GiB/s Managed Data Pipeline with zero code in their cloud with no additional infrastructure.
📈 A scalable, near-real-time analytics engine.
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☁️ A 3 GiB/s Managed Data Pipeline with zero code in their cloud with no additional infrastructure.
📈 A scalable, near-real-time analytics engine.
buff.ly/mvalnHH
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Character.AI uses @warpstream.com to power:
☁️ A 3 GiB/s Managed Data Pipeline with zero code in their cloud with no additional infrastructure.
📈 A scalable, near-real-time analytics engine.
buff.ly/mvalnHH
☁️ A 3 GiB/s Managed Data Pipeline with zero code in their cloud with no additional infrastructure.
📈 A scalable, near-real-time analytics engine.
buff.ly/mvalnHH
Did you know WarpStream supports transactions? Our blog reviews what Apache Kafka transactions are and how they work in WarpStream 👉 buff.ly/Ai6Jcbh
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Did you know WarpStream supports transactions? Our blog reviews what Apache Kafka transactions are and how they work in WarpStream 👉 buff.ly/Ai6Jcbh
Using WarpStream, @grafana.bsky.social decoupled the read & write paths in Mimir, eliminated inter-AZ charges, & benchmarked up to 7.5 GiB/s of aggregate compressed throughput. "We didn’t encounter any bottlenecks, demonstrating that WarpStream could meet our scaling needs."
How WarpStream Powers Grafana Labs’ Redesigned Architecture
www.warpstream.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Using WarpStream, @grafana.bsky.social decoupled the read & write paths in Mimir, eliminated inter-AZ charges, & benchmarked up to 7.5 GiB/s of aggregate compressed throughput. "We didn’t encounter any bottlenecks, demonstrating that WarpStream could meet our scaling needs."
WarpStream Schema Linking allows you to continuously migrate any Confluent-compatible schema registry into a WarpStream BYOC Schema Registry.
🔗 Blog: buff.ly/Dj9Rru1
📝 Docs: buff.ly/dthe1la
🔗 Blog: buff.ly/Dj9Rru1
📝 Docs: buff.ly/dthe1la
WarpStream Schema Linking Overview
WarpStream Schema Linking can migrate schemas from Confluent-compatible schema registries to WarpStream’s BYOC Schema Registry. During migration, your schemas will never leave your cloud environment…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
WarpStream Schema Linking allows you to continuously migrate any Confluent-compatible schema registry into a WarpStream BYOC Schema Registry.
🔗 Blog: buff.ly/Dj9Rru1
📝 Docs: buff.ly/dthe1la
🔗 Blog: buff.ly/Dj9Rru1
📝 Docs: buff.ly/dthe1la
Thanks to SnowcatCloud for making this video about Bento, the free, open-source stream processing framework maintained by WarpStream. Learn more 👇
Blog about how it came to be 👉 buff.ly/VN0ZDCt
Bento website 👉 buff.ly/7pvUIlu
Blog about how it came to be 👉 buff.ly/VN0ZDCt
Bento website 👉 buff.ly/7pvUIlu
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thanks to SnowcatCloud for making this video about Bento, the free, open-source stream processing framework maintained by WarpStream. Learn more 👇
Blog about how it came to be 👉 buff.ly/VN0ZDCt
Bento website 👉 buff.ly/7pvUIlu
Blog about how it came to be 👉 buff.ly/VN0ZDCt
Bento website 👉 buff.ly/7pvUIlu
Need to get Kafka topics into Iceberg tables? Don't:
⭐ Use Spark.
🗄️🗂️ Rely on tiered storage.
Use WarpStream Tableflow. It's so simple that it almost feels like magic and does it with low latency while taking care of compaction.
buff.ly/YQC5bkJ
⭐ Use Spark.
🗄️🗂️ Rely on tiered storage.
Use WarpStream Tableflow. It's so simple that it almost feels like magic and does it with low latency while taking care of compaction.
buff.ly/YQC5bkJ
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Need to get Kafka topics into Iceberg tables? Don't:
⭐ Use Spark.
🗄️🗂️ Rely on tiered storage.
Use WarpStream Tableflow. It's so simple that it almost feels like magic and does it with low latency while taking care of compaction.
buff.ly/YQC5bkJ
⭐ Use Spark.
🗄️🗂️ Rely on tiered storage.
Use WarpStream Tableflow. It's so simple that it almost feels like magic and does it with low latency while taking care of compaction.
buff.ly/YQC5bkJ
🌑 Entire cloud region goes dark? Your streams shouldn't. WarpStream's Multi‑Region Clusters replicate every write across 3 regions, delivering true RPO=0 and a 99.999% uptime SLA. Never lose a record, even during region‑wide outages.
No record left behind: How WarpStream can withstand cloud provider regional outages
With WarpStream Multi-Region Clusters, we can now ensure that you will also be protected from region-wide cloud provider outages, or single-region control plane failures.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🌑 Entire cloud region goes dark? Your streams shouldn't. WarpStream's Multi‑Region Clusters replicate every write across 3 regions, delivering true RPO=0 and a 99.999% uptime SLA. Never lose a record, even during region‑wide outages.
Goldsky was hitting the limits of Kafka at scale with tens of thousands of partitions and petabytes of blockchain data. By moving to WarpStream, they cut costs by 90%, removed bottlenecks, and now scale seamlessly toward 100 PiBs and beyond 👉 buff.ly/KeBuymV
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Goldsky was hitting the limits of Kafka at scale with tens of thousands of partitions and petabytes of blockchain data. By moving to WarpStream, they cut costs by 90%, removed bottlenecks, and now scale seamlessly toward 100 PiBs and beyond 👉 buff.ly/KeBuymV
When S3 is your storage engine, you have to minimize the number of PUTs and GETs you use, as they are the same charge regardless of file size. Learn how we optimize read + write paths to drive down costs.
Minimizing S3 API Costs with Distributed mmap
We first introduced WarpStream in our blog post: "Kafka is Dead, Long Live Kafka", but to summarize: WarpStream is a Kafka protocol compatible data streaming system built directly on top of object…
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October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When S3 is your storage engine, you have to minimize the number of PUTs and GETs you use, as they are the same charge regardless of file size. Learn how we optimize read + write paths to drive down costs.
Did you know Cursor's Kafka-compatible data streaming infrastructure is powered by WarpStream? Engineer Alex Haugland talks about:
🙌 Why they picked Warpstream over OSK
⏲️ Latency
🔒 Data privacy
📊 Scaling and zero ops
🚀 And more
buff.ly/So4TaVA
🙌 Why they picked Warpstream over OSK
⏲️ Latency
🔒 Data privacy
📊 Scaling and zero ops
🚀 And more
buff.ly/So4TaVA
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Did you know Cursor's Kafka-compatible data streaming infrastructure is powered by WarpStream? Engineer Alex Haugland talks about:
🙌 Why they picked Warpstream over OSK
⏲️ Latency
🔒 Data privacy
📊 Scaling and zero ops
🚀 And more
buff.ly/So4TaVA
🙌 Why they picked Warpstream over OSK
⏲️ Latency
🔒 Data privacy
📊 Scaling and zero ops
🚀 And more
buff.ly/So4TaVA
🌎 WarpStream supports multiple cloud regions on providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. No need to worry about us-east-1 on AWS, as we have support for us-east-2 and nine AWS regions in total. View the full list 👉https://docs.warpstream.com/warpstream/agent-setup/deploy
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🌎 WarpStream supports multiple cloud regions on providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. No need to worry about us-east-1 on AWS, as we have support for us-east-2 and nine AWS regions in total. View the full list 👉https://docs.warpstream.com/warpstream/agent-setup/deploy