+1 (non-binding) As a long time Kafka use and member of a team who provides management for Apache Kafka, I'm excited to see this KIP move forward. It will help to keep Kafka cost competitive in the face of many cloud-first alternatives.
-- Andrew On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 7:49 PM Henry Haiying Cai via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 (non-binding) > > As the author of competing KIP (KIP-1176: Tiered Storage for Active Log > Segment), I am supporting KIP-1150 as KIP-1150 represents the right > long-term architecture for Kafka in the cloud. > > Henry Cai > > > On Friday, January 9, 2026 at 04:08:03 AM PST, Anatolii Popov via dev < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > We are restarting the vote for KIP-1150: Diskless Topics. > > Since the previous vote, the KIP has been substantially updated to address > community feedback. > > As a reminder, KIP-1150 is a motivational KIP intended to establish the > architectural direction for diskless topics. The specific implementation > details are delegated to separate sub-KIPs, which will be discussed and > voted on individually. > > To give you a concrete idea of the path forward, KIP-1163 is already in an > almost-ready-for-review state, so you can see where we are heading after > this. > > KIP-1150: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1150%3A+Diskless+Topics > KIP-1163 > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1150%3A+Diskless+TopicsKIP-1163> > : > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1163%3A+Diskless+Core > > Best, > Anatolii > -- > Anatolii Popov > Senior Software Developer, *Aiven OY* > m: +358505126242 > w: aiven.io e: [email protected] > <https://www.facebook.com/aivencloud> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiven/> <https://twitter.com/aiven_io> >
