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I thought that was one of the primary use cases? Is that not true?

• mbell 9y ago
  Kafka's primary use case is as an intermediary for a stream processing system. e.g. to ingest a firehouse of events, make them durable, then feed them to a number of different processors. More common use cases here: https://kafka.apache.org/uses https://kafka.apache.org/uses. You _could_ use it's data model to implement a 'job queue', but it's not a great fit for a number of reasons.
• barrkel 9y ago
  Think of Kafka as a replayable append-only log. It's tuned for ingestion of enormous quantities of data; it's best at buffering big data, or perhaps as an infinitely growing log of everything that happens in a system, than simply communication in a distributed system. It doesn't have back pressure and its namespacing is primitive (ie DIY with prefixes, and avoid Confluent libraries that assume they're the only client in the system).