Get Kafka-Nated Ep 5: Satish Duggana, Uber - Contributing Tiered Storage to Kafka

Wednesday August 20 2025

16:00 BST

17:00 CEST

11:00 EDT

Guest Focus: Senior engineer and KIP-405 Tiered Storage architect

Satish from Uber, will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Satish was a contributor to KIP 405 which brought tiered storage to Kafka.

What we’ll cover:

• What actually is tiered Kafka storage?
• What were the problems tiered storage was designed to solve?
• The specific storage challenge at Uber that led to KIP 405
• The biggest technical challenges in the implementation of KIP 405
• As a contributor how Satish worked with the community process to deliver such a fundamental change
• Common misconceptions about tiered storage

As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!

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