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In this podcast excerpt, Maor Bril from Character.AI talks about how WarpStream reduced their costs 85-90%. Check out the full podcast where talks about how WarpStream is boring (in a good way, as it just works) and more 👉 buff.ly/sBPPn32

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 25/09/2026

Need Apache Kafka®-compatible streaming with lower costs and ops in a zero-access, secure environment? That's why teams like Goldsky, character.ai, Cursor, Robinhood, and others use WarpStream. Learn more at buff.ly/xyhDlkZ.

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 23/09/2026

Using cloud disks for Apache Kafka® is really expensive. They're often 3–5x more than teams realize once you factor in IOPS, throughput provisioning, and replication. Object storage changes the equation entirely 👉 buff.ly/yFlTQnl

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 22/09/2026

WarpStream Tableflow is the easiest, cheapest, and most flexible way to convert Apache Kafka® topic data into Iceberg tables with low latency, and keep them compacted 🧊 buff.ly/mrv8UIA

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 18/09/2026

Shared nothing vs. shared storage: we take a deep dive into these two architectures and discuss why WarpStream uses a shared storage architecture ➡️ buff.ly/LJ5mEOO

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 17/09/2026

Pixel Federation was using Amazon MSK, and their bill was growing faster than their data volumes and they had to use complex networking like VPC peering. Learn how switching to WarpStream cut their bill and simplified operations.

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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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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 15/09/2026

Schema migration, the declarative way. WarpStream Schema Linking continuously reconciles any Confluent-compatible schema registry into a BYOC Schema Registry. Terraform-style diffing, schema IDs, and subjects preserved. Schemas never leave your VPC 👉 buff.ly/bL0VnPn

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 14/09/2026

WarpStream Diagnostics continuously analyzes your Apache Kafka®-compatible clusters for health and cost issues, then exposes every check as a consumable metric. Severity-rated, with clear fixes 👉 buff.ly/aibCubT

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 11/09/2026

Learn how WarpStream’s multi-region infrastructure presents as a single pane of glass in the web Console while still being resilient to regional failures 👉 buff.ly/xjrsb9V

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 10/09/2026

WarpStream separates storage, compute, and metadata. The cloud provider manages the storage, the customer manages the stateless compute (the Agents), and WarpStream manages the metadata. No raw data ever leaves your environment 👉 buff.ly/3QwTDX2

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 09/09/2026

WarpStream is designed to look and feel exactly like an Apache 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.

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Hacking the Kafka PRoTocOL

How we built stateless load balancing into a protocol that was never designed for it.

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 08/09/2026

Goldsky was hitting the limits of Apache Kafka® at scale with tens of thousands of partitions and petabytes of blockchain data. By moving to WarpStream, they cut Kafka costs by 90%, removed bottlenecks, and now scale seamlessly toward 100 PiBs and beyond.

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The Road to 100PiBs and Hundreds of Thousands of Partitions: Goldsky Case Study

Goldsky’s mission to stream and index massive volumes of blockchain data quickly ran into the scaling and cost limits of traditional Kafka. With tens of thousands of partitions and petabytes of data,…

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 04/09/2026

"Who deleted that?" WarpStream Audit Logs give full visibility into every auth decision, every admin action, and every cluster operation. Structured, consumable via Apache Kafka® , and ready in one click.

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Audit Logs for WarpStream: Full Visibility Into Every Action on Your Clusters

Audit Logs give you a complete, structured record of every authentication action, authorization decision, and platform operation across your WarpStream clusters.

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 03/09/2026

WarpStream Data Governance provides Schema Registry, Validation, and Linking. All Confluent compatible. All running in your own cloud. Zero access, zero ops, and no extra infra. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/nIWDkyy

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 02/09/2026

What is Orbit Auto Migration? Seamless migrations of Apache Kafka® producers from any source cluster to WarpStream with zero downtime, zero restarts, and zero maintenance windows. Learn why it was needed and how it works: buff.ly/rXljSrm

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 01/09/2026

Never again deal with complex networking issues or Apache Kafka® clusters competing for resources. WarpStream Agent Groups are isolated at the network and service discovery layer while sharing object storage 👉 buff.ly/QmXfYu2

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 28/08/2026

🌑 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.

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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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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 27/08/2026

WarpStream Agent Groups isolate workloads within the same environment, enabling consistent performance, simplified operations, and seamless scalability, without sacrificing flexibility or blowing your budget. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/ef9Mjez

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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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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 26/08/2026

What did Robinhood gain by switching from Apache Kafka® to WarpStream for its logging workloads? 💸 A 45% cost savings. 📊 Auto-scaling that keeps clusters right-sized. 👍 Simpler ops (no more noisy neighbors or complex networking). buff.ly/AvbEGUk

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Robinhood Swaps Kafka for WarpStream to Tame Logging Workloads and Costs

By switching from Kafka to WarpStream for their logging workloads, Robinhood saved 45%. WarpStream auto-scaling always keeps clusters right-sized, and features like Agent Groups eliminate issues like…

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 25/08/2026

ACLs are needed for security, but enabling them in production carries risks. WarpStream ACL Shadowing evaluates ACLs before enforcing them, so engineers can identify and fix issues safely 👉 buff.ly/ef2JIq7

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 24/08/2026

Apache Kafka® isn't a database, but we gave it a query engine anyway. With WarpStream Events: 📈 Search and visualize Agent logs, ACL decisions, and pipeline execution logs ⚒️ Ditch multiple tools ☑️ Get built-in observability with zero ops buff.ly/mxs209m

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 21/08/2026

WarpStream exposes an MCP server. Ask your AI assistant to check Diagnostics, query ACL denials, inspect consumer group lag, or search Agent logs — across every cluster, without leaving your IDE 👉 buff.ly/FBaAxsH

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 20/08/2026

Stream processing without a second system to run. WarpStream Managed Data Pipelines run inside your Agents in your cloud account. Raw data never leaves. Transform, enrich, and route with YAML. No extra clusters. buff.ly/kpGLLmG

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 19/08/2026

What are the benefits of WarpStream's zero disk or diskless architecture? 💸 Reduced costs. 📈 Auto-scaling. 🎯 Workload isolation. 📊 Easy integration with Managed Data Pipelines. 🔒 Zero access and BYOC native.

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Zero Disks is Better (for Kafka) - Diskless Kafka

Follow up to "Tiered Storage Won't Fix Kafka", this post covers all the different advantages that WarpStream's Zero Disk / Diskless Architecture provides over Apache Kafka.

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 18/08/2026

What is Orbit Auto Migration? Seamless migrations of Apache Kafka® producers from any source cluster to @warpstream.com with zero downtime, zero restarts, and zero maintenance windows. Learn why it was needed and how it works: warpstream.com/blog/orbit-k...

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 14/08/2026

Need to get Apache Kafka® topics into Iceberg tables? Don't use Spark or 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/UmlNZ8U

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 12/08/2026

Measuring consumer group lag in Apache Kafka® using offsets isn't the best approach. Time lag makes it much easier to monitor and troubleshoot consumer groups. Time lag measurement is built directly into WarpStream – no third-party tooling is needed 👉 buff.ly/78u3xYH

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 11/08/2026

WarpStream supports compacted topics. In this blog, we go over: 🤔 What compacted topics are. 🛠️ Why they're challenging to implement. 🗜️ How they work in Apache Kafka®. 👍 How they work in WarpStream (with an unexpected benefit). buff.ly/0eDSusN

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 10/08/2026

@tomwilkie.bsky.social from @grafana.bsky.social talks to Ryan Worl about how @warpstream.com helped when they were developing Adaptive Metrics 👉 buff.ly/gTMahnu. Also, check out the case study about how @warpstream.com powers Mimir: buff.ly/tcy28HW

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 07/08/2026

WarpStream maintains the same ordering and idempotency guarantees as Apache Kafka®. Learn how we do this and how it enables our Agents to massively parallelize writes 👉 buff.ly/e8t6QkZ

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 06/08/2026

Learn how WarpStream reduces costs and simplifies operations, its features, see price comparisons, and read customer case studies 👉 buff.ly/VV2pYGZ

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 05/08/2026

In this podcast excerpt, Maor Bril from Character.AI talks about how WarpStream reduced their data streaming costs 85-90%. Check out the full podcast where talks about how WarpStream is boring (in a good way, as it just works) and more 👉 buff.ly/17yHlzT

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 04/08/2026

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 WarpStream optimizes read + write paths to drive down costs 👉 buff.ly/898626E

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 03/08/2026

Need diskless, Apache Kafka®-compatible data streaming with low latency on GCP? WarpStream supports GCP Rapid Buckets. No file closes, no cold starts. Just pre-warmed writers. Learn how we built it 👉 buff.ly/4jBZoV4

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 31/07/2026

Our PM built a feature by himself, and he's very proud of it. Some thoughts on the new product development lifecycle from WarpStream's Head of Product 👉 buff.ly/T7Job6h

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 30/07/2026

Apache Kafka® migrations are painful: stop every producer, drain lag, restart everything, and hope nothing breaks. Orbit Auto Migration simplifies everything: repoint producers at WarpStream whenever you're ready, then cut over with a single click 👉 buff.ly/twq5BAt

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 29/07/2026

How did we go from 4 engineers running deploys off a laptop that could roll back production if it went to sleep, to control planes in 24 regions across 3 cloud providers, with no DevOps team? The full story: buff.ly/o7chHUJ

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 28/07/2026

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 27/07/2026

Cloud disks are really expensive. They're often 3–5x more than teams realize once you factor in IOPS, throughput provisioning, and replication. Object storage changes the equation entirely 👉 buff.ly/HtlOOb8

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 24/07/2026

Pixel Federation was using Amazon MSK, and their Kafka bill was growing faster than their data volumes and they had to use complex networking like VPC peering. Learn how switching to WarpStream cut their bill and simplified operations ➡️ buff.ly/rpLFtL4

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 22/07/2026

WarpStream Diagnostics continuously analyze your clusters to identify potential problems, cost inefficiencies, and ways to improve things ➡️ buff.ly/q0NBIEA

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 21/07/2026

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/zDVDSuq

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