Overcoming the Performance Cost of Streaming Transactions

For a long time distributed transactions have been known to make systems slow and unavailable. However, recent academic and industry advancements such as RAMP, Occult, Calvin and TAPIR have changed the landscape and made transactions remarkably fast. In this talk I'll explain how the Redpanda streaming data platform utilizes modern transactional approaches and pushes the envelope further by adjusting these concepts to the streaming workload. I'll share benchmarks and explain what makes Redpanda transactions so fast.