Video Series — Getting to Grips with Confluent
Confluent WarpStream — A New Approach to Kafka Streaming
Video Summary
In this video, Oscar Moores explores Confluent WarpStream, a modern bring-your-own-cloud approach to running Kafka-compatible workloads without traditional brokers. WarpStream leverages cloud object storage (like AWS S3) instead of local disk and uses the WarpStream agent to manage communication between producers, consumers, and storage.
Oscar explains how this architecture delivers security, scalability, and cost efficiency, while introducing slightly higher latency compared to traditional deployments. He also highlights agent groups, which isolate workloads to prevent spikes in one service from affecting the rest of your streaming environment.
The video concludes by examining the trade-offs of WarpStream, helping you understand when this deployment model is most suitable for your cloud-based streaming needs.
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