| > What was the reason to stick on 0.10.0 for so long? Aforementioned self-packaging, we were mangling the .tar.gz files into .debs, and we had to remember to update the debs and then push them out onto our systems, instead of just using Apt. Thus why Confluent's prebuilt distro helped a lot! But also the team was just _afraid_ of Kafka and didn't want to touch it unnecessarily. > I see you like Cruise Control in the Confluent Platform, did you try it earlier? We definitely should have. We tried Datadog's Kafka-kit but found adapting it to use Wavefront or Honeycomb Metrics products was more problematic than it needed to be. > Tiered storage is slowly coming to FOSS Kafka, hopefully in 3.2.0, thanks to some very nice developers from AirBnB. Credit to the StreamNative team, that FOSS Pulsar has tiered storage built-in. Yeah, we're glad the rest of the world gets to have it, and also glad we paid upfront for Confluent's enterprise feature version to get us out of the immediate bind we had in 2020. Those EBS/instance storage bills were adding up fast. |