Things like Maxwell[0] help a lot with the getting stuff into Kafka from the DB, but I agree with your point entirely. Kafka is not something I’d recommend unle

Things like Maxwell[0] help a lot with the getting stuff into Kafka from the DB, but I agree with your point entirely. Kafka is not something I’d recommend unless you’ve got a team dedicated to maintaining it. Thankfully Confluent is rising up to fill that need and reasonably priced. Confluent also has an offering for streaming binlogs into Kafka too. [0] http://maxwells-daemon.io/ http://maxwells-daemon.io/