> The primary consideration at this point is cost. Certainly. In my experience the operational cost of kafka is enormous. Ive seen incidents too often for a re

> The primary consideration at this point is cost. Certainly. In my experience the operational cost of kafka is enormous. Ive seen incidents too often for a relatively small (<10 machines) cluster. I would expect that after a first long phase of finding the right configuration, to step on a phase were it runs smoothly, but I didnt see it yet.