OpenData Buffer: HA pipelines without Kafka

apurvamehta 12 points 1 comment April 30, 2026
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agavra

Save you the read, here's the interesting part: For $90/mo, we ran a benchmark pushing ~30 MiB/s of metrics data via Buffer. Using public pricing calculators, the equivalent Kafka service cost roughly $1,300/month for managed WarpStream and $8,500/month for self-hosted Apache Kafka.

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