(WarpStream founder) WarpStream has a completely different architecture than Kafka: https://docs.warpstream.com/warpstream/background-information/warpstreams-ar

(WarpStream founder) WarpStream has a completely different architecture than Kafka: https://docs.warpstream.com/warpstream/background-information/warpstreams-architecture https://docs.warpstream.com/warpstream/background-informatio... That said it does require a lot of metadata to orchestrate all the different concurrent operations over S3. We handle this with a custom metadata store that we run in our cloud control plane.