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Discover how to dramatically reduce cloud infrastructure costs in this 27-minute conference talk that explores Ursa's innovative approach to eliminating interzone traffic fees in large-scale streaming data systems. Learn about the underlying architecture of this Kafka-compatible, leaderless streaming platform built on S3 that intelligently minimizes interzone data transfers from end to end. Explore the network optimization strategies that eliminate interzone traffic completely, including the use of dedicated load balancers for each zone and AWS's zonal endpoints. Understand how Ursa's leaderless architecture with cloud storage integration removes the need for traditional broker replication, while its lake house native engine enables direct data ingestion from topics to lake house tables without additional connectors. Gain practical insights into optimizing cloud costs and improving system efficiency through real-world examples and performance data, including VPC flow log analysis showing near-complete elimination of interzone traffic with only minimal metadata operations remaining.
