2 Minute Streaming
concise, clear & unique 2-minute reads around the Big Data Space ✨, sent at most once a week 👌
Written by
Stanislav Kozlovski
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Jan 17, 2025
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10 min read
the most concise and simple explanation out there
Dec 13, 2024
8 min read
is kafka really that expensive?
Nov 23, 2024
why enabling this feature can save you 50% of your Apache Kafka's deployment's total cost in the cloud
Aug 13, 2024
7 min read
what it takes to process 100s of GB/s with competing requirements
Aug 7, 2023
6 min read
0️⃣💾 the most concise explanation of the operating system's zero-copy concept in 2 minutes
May 8, 2026
5 min read
feat. Ursa, diskless topics & Iceberg as explanations
Apr 2, 2026
12 min read
why IBM acquired Confluent
Dec 30, 2025
9 min read
A year-end review of the streaming ecosystem: acquisitions, existential pivots, and the slow march toward table formats.
Dec 27, 2025
Kafka vs Postgres? Here's why you don't need Kafka (all the time)
Sep 19, 2025
13 min read
How Apache Kafka's KRaft consensus protocol works in 2 minutes
Jul 14, 2025
a cornerstore of Kafka's replication protocol
Jun 26, 2025
14 min read
KIP-1150 brings 20x cheaper storage and infinitely cheaper data transfer fees
Mar 18, 2025
see the top 3 features, and some trivia around other major releases
Jan 23, 2025
uncovering the commonly-confused min insync replicas setting
