Kafka's author wrote a very well motivated and interesting introduction to Kafka-based architectures a few months ago on LinkedIn's blog: http://engineering.li

Kafka's author wrote a very well motivated and interesting introduction to Kafka-based architectures a few months ago on LinkedIn's blog: http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what... Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557