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What pushed you to move to Kafka?

• caust1c 7y ago
  Reliability, scalability and tooling (in that order). Basically Kafka provides what NSQ is lacking: https://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html https://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html Messages are durable (across nodes, not just persisted to the filesystem). Messages are delivered in-order (for a partition). Consumers know all partitions of a topic from startup, it's not eventually consistent. NSQ has been great honestly, it was just designed with different use cases in mind.
  • nik736 7y ago
    Was language a deciding factor? NSQ being Go while Kafka is Java.
    • caust1c 7y ago
      Not at all. We mostly use Go internally for backend services, so if anything that was a point for NSQ.
      • zeroc8 7y ago
        What about NATS Streaming? Is it a viable alternative (now at version 2.0) to Kafka?