how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives

Sep 24 • 

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A Quick Introduction to Kafka Streams

The simplest explanation of Kafka's stream processing library out there.

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Why Was Apache Kafka Created?

The story behind how LinkedIn created Apache Kafka

Aug 22 • 

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February 2025

kafka community spotlight: TAIWAN 🇹🇼

6 high-impact Kafka contributors from Taiwan share their exprience

Feb 21

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December 2024

The Brutal Truth about Kafka Cost Calculators

you are conditioned to believe that Kafka is expensive

Dec 13, 2024 • 

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meet your new data lakehouse: S3 Iceberg Tables

S3 Tables and S3 Metadata are two new features that compete with common Apache Iceberg Lakehouse architectures

Dec 5, 2024 • 

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July 2024

What To Expect?

Announcing Big Data Stream! 💥

Jul 28, 2024 • 

Stanislav Kozlovski

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Coming soon

This is Stanislav’s Big Data Stream.

Jul 5, 2024 • 

Stanislav Kozlovski

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