Nobody Understands Kafka Costs, Stanislav Kozlovski - S2 Episode 5
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Nobody Understands Kafka Costs, Stanislav Kozlovski - S2 Episode 5<br>In this episode we're going somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs, calculator lies, and all the ways pricing obscures what you're actually paying.
Hugh Evans and Stanislav Kozlovski<br>May 21, 2026
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Stanislav Kozlovski is an Apache Kafka committer, software engineer, and the author of 2 Minute Streaming, a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers focused on real-time event streaming and data engineering. With over 50k followers across social media, he's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, he went independent and has been consulting and writing full-time.<br>In this episode we're going somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs, calculator lies, and all the ways pricing obscures what you're actually paying.
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