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I agree. It's rare that a company needs something like Kafka. Kafka introduces a number of issues related to the development of client code and data stores (i
by sidlls 9y ago
I agree.
It's rare that a company needs something like Kafka.
Kafka introduces a number of issues related to the development of client code and data stores (if any) and the maintenance of these things. It's important that the actual scale justifies the expense incurred.
- qaq 9y agoIt's not rare, using Kafka in place of a prober db is crazy though. There are tones of use cases that benefit from having Kafka a very common one is putting Kafka in front of the data processing pipeline to absorb spikes without data loss.
- sidlls 9y agoIt's rare that a company has spikes of that sort that can't be handled in far more mundane ways. Most companies do not operate at a scale that merits this sort of solution. Look at the engineering blogs on LinkedIn for the reasoning behind creating it. It's over-kill for most use cases.
- qaq 9y agoKafka is fairly mundane piece of software aside from periodic ops issues with Zookeeper.