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It'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 Kaf
by qaq 9y ago
It'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.