The claims in the article about lower operational upkeep are pretty disingenuous. They only talk about things that are easier in pulsar than kafka, but not abou

The claims in the article about lower operational upkeep are pretty disingenuous. They only talk about things that are easier in pulsar than kafka, but not about the complete picture at all. I'd largely ignore the article and go have a look at how to run both independently. As another commenter posted, they both require zookeeper to run (there are efforts to remove ZK from kafka, but until that's proven you'll still need to assume you need ZK), so the operational upkeep it going to be very similar.