Confluent + WarpStream = Large-Scale Streaming in your Cloud
I’m excited to announce that Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution with a unique architecture. We’re excited to be adding their product to our portfolio alongside Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud to serve customers who want a cloud-native streaming offering in their own cloud account.
Why add another flavor of streaming? After all, we’ve long offered two major form factors–Confluent Cloud, a fully managed serverless offering, and Confluent Platform, a self-managed software offering–why complicate things? Well, our goal is to make data streaming the central nervous system of every company, and to do that we need to make it something that is a great fit for a vast array of use cases and companies.
The WarpStream product has a number of great features, including offset-preserving replication and Cluster Quotas (coming soon!) and direct-to-S3 writes like Confluent’s Freight clusters. However, the big thing they did that got our attention was their next-generation approach to BYOC architectures. What do I mean by that? Well, we’ve long felt there was a spectrum that looked something like this:
