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ugh... i dispise this crap.. " the “it just works” experience of using Kafka. " Blog post says how it just works, then shows a crazy diagram stringing togeth
by brootstrap 9y ago
ugh... i dispise this crap..
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the “it just works” experience of using Kafka.
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Blog post says how it just works, then shows a crazy diagram stringing together 8 different pieces of technology (which themselves are insanely deep). Is there any easy way to understand WTF this crap does without knowing about RDS, hadoop, monitoring, real time BS, streaming etc? Does it "just work" once you've spent weeks and months understanding wtf it is?
- manigandham 9y agoNothing in that diagram has anything to do with Kafka, it's just showing that you can connect different systems together using a single message bus. If you are new to that concept then I recommend reading the seminal blog post about using logs as the data backbone: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... After that, you can choose whichever implementation you want, of which Kafka is just one option. And yes it does require some work to setup and run, as most software does, but it's no more or less than any other distributed system at this point.