>Kafka is a monster of complexity notoriously hard to operate (Hello ZooKeeper) and to understand properly (Hello ordering, persistency and partitions). 100% t

>Kafka is a monster of complexity notoriously hard to operate (Hello ZooKeeper) and to understand properly (Hello ordering, persistency and partitions). 100% this. Even using managed Kafka is a pain for most use cases. We replaced managed Kafka with a simple postgresql db using skip locked as a queue mechanism and the dev teams productivity tripled and our total cost of ownership decreased dramatically. Don’t think twice, think 10 times if you really need Kafka