ShareChat transitioned from open-source Kafka to WarpStream to optimize their machine learning logging and handle their highly elastic workloads more efficiently. By adopting WarpStream's stateless architecture, ShareChat achieved significant cost savings and improved scalability, eliminating inter-AZ networking fees and reducing operational complexities associated with Kafka. The article details their testing results, showing WarpStream's advantages in throughput and cost-effectiveness compared to traditional Kafka setups.

WarpStream is a Kafka-compatible streaming platform that utilizes object storage for enhanced durability and cost efficiency, especially when combined with Tigris, a multi-cloud storage solution that eliminates egress fees. This article provides a tutorial on deploying a WarpStream cluster backed by Tigris using Docker, allowing users to create a scalable message queue without hidden transfer costs. It covers prerequisites, setup steps, and basic operations to manage topics and messages within the queue.