The "Turning the database inside out" article that's linked a couple of posts up about Kafka and logs in general was the one that made me sit up and take notice

The "Turning the database inside out" article that's linked a couple of posts up about Kafka and logs in general was the one that made me sit up and take notice and really made me 'get' Kafka and the entries stream oriented processing thing. It raises interesting questions and I've had fun producing both arguements for and against the approach.