I really have to disagree -- for what I've used it for kafka's basically been reliable and amazingly simple to manage. The use case is, I think in the grand sc

I really have to disagree -- for what I've used it for kafka's basically been reliable and amazingly simple to manage. The use case is, I think in the grand scheme of things pretty simple -- it's an "on-prem" infrastructure with some mixture of old and new servers and mixture of SSD and terrible old 3.5in rotational media. None of it is "cloud" -- just kafka clusters deployed with puppet with fluent and kafka rest proxy feeding the kafka and logstash or vector reading from it, but ... it just works. We've had one incident in the past 4 years, and that was because the network decided to go super asymmetric. Anyhow, I've got lots of problems, but "running kafka" isn't one of them.