Ursa — a new Diskless Lakestream engine for Kafka

The future of Kafka is diskless topics + native Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake integration Intro Ursa is a relatively new engine that's being fitted into Kafka . This is done through a minimally invasive fork that will be open-sourced in a few months. Here's why one should care: introduces Diskless Topics to Kafka — the ones that WarpStream pioneered, with 10x lower infra costs , simpler operations, instant scalability, etc. is Iceberg/Delta Lake-native — stores the topic data in an open-table form