>It would be quite simple to have a two tiered approach to the logging problem since they have separated it into 2 components. One can just write and ship files

>It would be quite simple to have a two tiered approach to the logging problem since they have separated it into 2 components. One can just write and ship files while the other is what they have described in terms of providing real time streaming. Yes, they absolutely could do that, but they apparently don't. And maybe that's because they would lose a lot of the simplicity they won by ditching Kafka. Anyway, I didn't want to defend Kafka specifically. The one time I considered it, I ended up not using it because it seemed too heavy weight for my use case in terms of memory usage and complexity.