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Spotify Moving from Kafka to Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Part II: Messaging at ~1Gbps
- robertheadley 11y agoSome people would say that this is the first step in an acquisition. I don't know if Google wants to take on the music industry this squarely though.
- oliyoung 11y agoNot the first step, this was the first step https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-infrastructures-googley-future/ https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
- nitwit005 11y agoThe Kafka tests included things like reboots, but it sounds as though they didn't test anything like that with Google's could products, presumably because they couldn't.
- vgt 11y agoIt's not so much they "couldn't", it's that things like global presence, reliability, and scalability are just part of the service. With Kafka, you can potentially design a system that has these properties, whereas PubSub gives you this as a service.