Great writeup! I think it was incredibly brave to pick Kafka in 2015. I started with 0.9 and it was an absolute nightmare to manage for years. We hit a lot of t

Great writeup! I think it was incredibly brave to pick Kafka in 2015. I started with 0.9 and it was an absolute nightmare to manage for years. We hit a lot of the same issues listed in the blog with scaling, cluster recovery, topic replication, numerous zookeeper problems.