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Why do you say log rather than just publish and subscribe?

• exitb 1y ago
  Clients don’t have to subscribe to latest messages, but rather can request any available offset range.
• halifaxbeard 1y ago
  the log stays on kafka for replay until your per log retention settings delete it
• HarHarVeryFunny 1y ago
  The way people choose to use feedback on HN never fails to suprise me - we've got a generally intelligent user base here, but the most common type of feedback voting isn't because something is wrong but rather a childish "I don't like it - I want to suppress this comment". In this case it's something different - this was an honest question, and received two useful replies, so why downvote?! The mental model of people using Kafka is useful to know - in this case the published data being more log-like than stream-like since it's retained per a TTL policy, with each "subscriber" having their own controllable read index.
  • MYEUHD 1y ago
    > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
    • HarHarVeryFunny 1y ago
      Same goes for metacomments about voting.