I think that's definitely part of it. Two roles ago my team was invested heavily in SQS and Kinesis. The role before that and my current role are pretty heavy w

I think that's definitely part of it. Two roles ago my team was invested heavily in SQS and Kinesis. The role before that and my current role are pretty heavy with Kafka still. I wouldn't call their use super interesting, though. The last role was simply because the business required as close to real time message processing as possible for billing analytics. But if I tell someone that, it's not incredibly interesting unless I start diving into messages per second and such.