WarpStream eases the burden of running Apache Kafka by replacing the deployment and maintenance of a physical Kafka cluster with a single stateless binary (called the Agent) that only communicates with object storage like Amazon S3 and our Cloud Metadata Store. WarpStream Agents speak the Apache Kafka protocol, but unlike an Apache Kafka broker, any Agent can act as the leader for any topic, commit offsets for any consumer group, or act as the coordinator for the cluster. No Agent is special,...
