Have you heard about Tansu?

Tomorrow, I will post the longest-ever podcast about it.

It’s an open-source (Apache), stateless, leaderless, single-binary Kafka broker supporting pluggable storage backends (S3, PostgreSQL, SQLite) with built-in schema registry and support for open-table formats (Iceberg/Delta)

It's the story of a one-man-show - Peter Morgan - a super-productive solo Rust developer with the desire to build a world-class ergonomic Kafka broker UX that's optimized for developers.

You can tell he's incredibly passionate about programming and Kafka from the super-engaging conversation we had. If you’d like to hear a no-bs techincal engineering conversation - watch me tomorrow as I interview him for 3 hours and 30 minutes straight.

The chat is full of nerd-snipes, where we talk about basically everything, including:

• the characteristics and value prop of Tansu

• our combined decade and a half experiences with Kafka

• schemas and today's unnecessary complexity around them

• low-level performance optimizations including in-depth flame graphs analysis

• the need for proxies in Kafka

• Kafka's java bias

• SQL + Streaming

• Rust for building low-level systems

• a lot more than I can capture in a single post

I know it may sound like "yet another Kafka", but it's the one I'm genuinely most excited about. Trust me there's good reason why 🙌

Stay tuned on our YouTube Premiere tomorrow:✅ youtube.com/watch?v=pJQ…

PS: Happy New Year! 💥🎉