#Kafka Connect Posts

Kafka costs are too damn high. Switch to Conduit

Kafka Costs Are Too Damn High! Here's How We Saved 73.8% Per Month By Ditching Kafka Connect

Learn how Meroxa achieved a 73.8% cost reduction by replacing Kafka Connect with Conduit, their open-source data integration engine. Discover how they improved memory usage from 1.5GB to 100MB per connector, reduced startup times from 30-60s to ~1s, and cut monthly compute costs from $45K to $12K. This technical deep-dive explores real performance metrics, architectural benefits, and practical implementation details for teams looking to optimize their Kafka infrastructure costs.

By  DeVaris Brown

 20 May 2025

Conduit beating the competition

Postgres CDC Showdown: Conduit Crushes Kafka Connect

As we’re getting closer to the Conduit 1.0 release, we recently started conducting a series of benchmarks on our most popular connectors. We started with MongoDB and Kafka. In this post we'll talk about our performance findings for Postgres.

By  Raúl Barroso

 16 May 2025