You're absolutely right; I've added [2015] to the title. For context: the company where I work is putting Kafka into production soon and we came across this po

You're absolutely right; I've added [2015] to the title. For context: the company where I work is putting Kafka into production soon and we came across this post while trying to build an intuition for the tradeoffs of Kafka as a system. I thought I'd post it on HN to try to generate some discourse. It's good to hear that things have changed so much for the positive, though since we're using Go, the Shopify client [0] has been usable for a while. [0]: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama https://github.com/Shopify/sarama