Literally the whole article talks about why Kafka isn’t a message bus and makes the case whilst this is fine. That said, I do find pretty quickly you need to g

Literally the whole article talks about why Kafka isn’t a message bus and makes the case whilst this is fine. That said, I do find pretty quickly you need to get your data out of Kafka in order to query it. Keeping your data in Kafka forever and re-upserting it into your database has mileage though.