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 numb

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.