Your comment is on point. However... ... if you read Jay Krep's introduction to logs [1] (in the Kafka sense of logs) you can see that while he has a nice sens

Your comment is on point. However... ... if you read Jay Krep's introduction to logs [1] (in the Kafka sense of logs) you can see that while he has a nice sense of humor [2], he felt pretty good about the Log abstraction and about Kafka. In no sense do I get the feeling he thought he was creating a kludge or something bad -- or "kafkaesque". Judging by the article, it might as well been named Apache Tolstoy! [1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... [2] "'Each working data pipeline is designed like a log; each broken data pipeline is broken in its own way.' — Count Leo Tolstoy (translation by the author)"