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What is the reason for using Kafka then, sorry if I'm missing something fundamental.
by politelemon 10mo ago
What is the reason for using Kafka then, sorry if I'm missing something fundamental.
- pram 10mo agoA Kafka consumer does a lot of work coordinating distributed clients in a group, managing the current offset, balancing the readers across partitions, etc which is native broker functionality. Saying you can replace it all with a simple JDBC client or something isn't true (if you need that stuff!)