Ehh - this is just my two cents with working on Kafka. When they say it's high performance, they really really mean. I have gotten very high throughputs on just

Ehh - this is just my two cents with working on Kafka. When they say it's high performance, they really really mean. I have gotten very high throughputs on just 2 medium machines. If you process that much data, Kafka is one of the last things which you'll need to scale out.