In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie sit down with Marco Pracucci (Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs), Cyril Tovena (Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs, and Ryan Worl (Co-founder, WarpStream) to unpack the next-generation architecture for Grafana Mimir. They discuss why decoupling the read and write paths matters, how Kafka-style partition guarantees change the game, and why replication-factor-three had become a costly bottleneck. Along the way: multi-AZ realities, object storage “loopholes,” and what new flexibility unlocks across the Grafana stack.