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TopicPartition
Personal blog · topicpartition.io/blogdatasystems
TopicPartition is a personal blog at topicpartition.io about data and systems. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Diskless Topics in Apache Kafka is a big deal (KIP-1150)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is about Walrus, a Rust Kafka alternative, and mentions Tansu and Warpstream's architecture. It does not discuss this blog's writing, so the linked posts' subject is unclear.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is a blog about Apache Kafka. Here’s some of my best writing: Kafka is fast — I’ll use Postgres Why Was Apache Kafka Created? No One Will Tell You The Real Cost of Apache Kafka If you’d like to reach out, you can find me on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).
Most-linked posts?
- Diskless Topics in Apache Kafka is a big deal (KIP-1150)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-18
What Hacker News says?
For Rust-based Kafka alternatives, I like Tansu[1]. It at least provides Kafka API parity, and critically also gives users a pluggable backend (embedded SQLite, S3 for low cost diskless type workloads and Postgres because just use Postgres) It’s nice to try and out innovate Kafka, but I fear the network effect can’t be beaten unless the alternative is 10x better. Something like Warpstream’s architecture[2] had a sho…
Comment linking /blog/kip-1150-diskless-topics-in-apache-kafka
on “Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust”Submitted Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres as a story · 561 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diskless Topics in Apache Kafka is a big deal (KIP-1150) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ursa – a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted KIP-1150 Diskless Topics in Apache Kafka is a big deal as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
