Building Streaming on S3

SaaS for Developers

Ryan Worl, co-founder and CTO of WarpStream, is on a mission to re-engineer fundamental infrastructure on top of S3. Starting with metrics at Uber, continuing with Husky - DataDog's platform for events, logs and everything except metrics and then... Ryan thought "it will be cool to re-build Kafka on S3", reached out to other developers to hear their thoughts... and ended up building WarpStream. In this episode we talk about Ryan's journey, how S3 can fundamentally change the way we design our infrastructure, and why it is a good idea to go in that direction. We talk about S3 vs S3 express. What will be the perfect serverless experience for streams. And finally, tune in at minute 50:00 to get excellent advice on how a SaaS provider should use logs.