klite

Kafka without the headache.
1 binary. 1 S3 bucket. 1M events/sec.

Performance

550K events/sec sustained, 27ms end-to-end latency. Standard Kafka protocol, so you can switch to a full cluster if you ever outgrow it. Benchmarks →

Durable by default

Every record is persisted to S3. No disks to manage, no data to lose. Storage scales with your data, not your ops team. Storage →

15 MB container

Single Go binary, no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no dependencies. Container boots in under a second. Design →

Any Kafka client works

Point your existing franz-go, librdkafka, Java, or Python clients at klite. No code changes. Zero-downtime migration to or from Kafka via MirrorMaker 2. Compatibility →