Case Study: Eternal Ltd cuts Kafka costs and simplifies operations with WarpStream

Eternal cuts logging costs 60% and benchmarking costs 80% with WarpStream

Eternal Ltd, the India-based technology company behind platforms like Zomato and Blinkit, was facing significant cost creep and operational complexity from its self-hosted and managed Apache Kafka setups. These systems were used for critical but latency-insensitive workloads like logging and benchmarking. The challenge involved high networking fees, long cluster creation times, and an inability to efficiently auto-scale their infrastructure, which handled data throughputs spiking from 2.3 GiB/s to over 25 GiB/s.

By implementing WarpStream's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) solution, Eternal replaced its Kafka infrastructure. WarpStream leveraged S3-compatible object storage, eliminating the need for data replication and inter-zone networking costs while enabling instant auto-scaling and a "scale to zero" capability. The results were substantial: Eternal achieved a 60% cost saving on logging and an 80% saving on benchmarking. Additionally, cluster creation time was reduced from 30 minutes to seconds, and the team was freed from constant infrastructure management.

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