Kafka is a wonderful tool. I built a few systems on top of it and all of them delivered the scale that was promised and more. With surprisingly little hardware.

Kafka is a wonderful tool. I built a few systems on top of it and all of them delivered the scale that was promised and more. With surprisingly little hardware. I'm very hostile to a lot of hipster tech but Kafka is one of the few genuinely good pieces of tech from the whole "Big Data" craze of the past decade.