Streaming data pioneer Redpanda today announced its acquisition of London-based Benthos, the popular open-source stream processing platform that enabl

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Streaming data pioneer Redpanda today announced the release of Redpanda 24.1, a powerful update that provides users more options for optimizing performance, extends inline processing capabilities and ensures the predictability and security of their systems. With a flexible write caching option, Redpanda 24.1 significantly improves performance on a wider variety of hardware and storage infrastructure. The release also includes new ways to balance cluster resources, role-based access control, and the general availability of Redpanda's data transformation capabilities.“We’ve released another first – a microsecond-level latency storage engine mode for the most demanding applications,” said Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda. “We were the first to build a fully compatible alternative to Apache Kafka. The first to deliver a Bring Your Own Cloud deployment option to the streaming world, fully auditable with minimal permissions. The first to deliver streaming, in-broker transformations based on WebAssembly – also GA in this release

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redpanda, the streaming data pioneer, today announced that ShareChat, India’s largest social media company, achieved a 70% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs with the help of Redpanda’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment option. By leveraging BYOC, ShareChat maintained data sovereignty while achieving a much more efficient data architecture, saving the organization significant time and resources.“Thanks to Redpanda’s efficient services, we’re saving millions of USD annually and are now able to operate much more efficiently,” said Arya Ketan, Senior Principal Engineer at ShareChat. “We are now scaling up new use cases on our event-streaming architecture without worrying about spiraling infrastructure costs. Redpanda is an integral component in our architecture, supporting highly critical use cases.”After evaluating a range of options, the company selected Redpanda for numerous benefits, including:Reduced costs and complexity: ShareChat not only significantly reduced its cloud infrastructure expenses, it also reduced operational costs by using Redpanda Cloud’s monitoring and alerting capabilities.ShareChat not only significantly reduced its cloud infrastructure expenses, it also reduced operational costs by using Redpanda Cloud’s monitoring and alerting capabilities. Improved scale-up/scale down: ShareChat needed to scale up its clusters in response to events in India, such as Diwali or Indian Independence Day, when they can experience upwards of 50% increases in traffic, peaking at more than 2 GBps.ShareChat needed to scale up its clusters in response to events in India, such as Diwali or Indian Independence Day, when they can experience upwards of 50% increases in traffic, peaking at more than 2 GBps. Flexibility and control: Redpanda's BYOC approach ensures data sovereignty, allowing ShareChat to maintain full control over its data and comply with data protection laws.Redpanda's BYOC approach ensures data sovereignty, allowing ShareChat to maintain full control over its data and comply with data protection laws