> Well, who’s to say they were processed? The queue, which should keep a reference count for messages. > How would you want to “handle” queue overflow? At th

> Well, who’s to say they were processed? The queue, which should keep a reference count for messages. > How would you want to “handle” queue overflow? At the producer end, of course. > You’ve either got storage space, or you don’t Kafka assumes you have infinite storage space. That might be okay for toy projects or for the insane architectures you see in the enterprise space, but not for a serious project.