WarpStream demonstrated its ability to handle a variety of challenging workloads with ease, including those that are difficult for other Kafka implementations like Apache Kafka. While it may have higher latency in some cases, WarpStream's design reduces cloud infrastructure costs by eliminating inter-AZ networking fees and using commodity object storage. The system's low-touch nature makes scaling up or down as simple as adding or removing containers, with no manual intervention required when a node dies and is replaced. Additionally, WarpStream's stateless architecture allows for sub-second producer latency and sub-2s end-to-end latency in many workloads, making it a cost-effective alternative to self-hosting Apache Kafka.