It really depends on what your application is. Where I'm at, most of Kafka usage adds nothing of note and could be replaced with a rest service. It sounds good

It really depends on what your application is. Where I'm at, most of Kafka usage adds nothing of note and could be replaced with a rest service. It sounds good that Kafka makes everything execute in order, but honestly just making requests block does the same thing. At least then I could autoscale, which Kafka prevents.