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Kafka is currently undergoing a rewrite into java.

• geodel 5y ago
  Indeed. To add further it is also facing competition from Apache Pulsar and NATS. Not to forget Redpanda a Kafka rewrite in C++.
  • agallego 5y ago
    a small note on redpanda. Is not a `rewrite`. It is an entire new storage engine, different consensus protocol, different on-disk format, different internal RPC, no external dependencies, ...., in fact when i started it it was using flatbuffers as the API. What we did later to make money is add a kafka-API translation layer, but in terms of code size, is a very small part. The way i'd recommend thinking about it is a new storage engine that is compatible w/ kafka clients. https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/tree/dev/src/v/kafka https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/tree/dev/src/v/kaf... - this is basically all the kafka-related code, the rest is net-new design.
• wfox 5y ago
  Source?
  • kitd 5y ago
    https://www.quora.com/Kafka-is-written-in-scala-Why-does-the-API-described-in-the-official-documentation-is-the-Javas-one https://www.quora.com/Kafka-is-written-in-scala-Why-does-the...
    • wfox 5y ago
      But the guy answering there is talking about the Java clients.