The object storage backend is interesting and I’m wondering if Kafka will have a native option for that, eventually.

Confluent hasn’t outright advertised it, but one of their engineers mentioned in a q&a that their Cloud offering is using object storage for their own backend now.

They always have.. you get it but you don't know it.

The correct word is in the title: it’s a cartel, in that it’s an association of suppliers that maintain high prices and restrict competition.

Amazingly spare article and it doesn’t mention the capital over time in property ownership? which is, to be fair, crap in many rental markets

if parent trolling is the profit margin de jour on patent profits, every entity that thrives on patents will join in