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I hadn't heard of Apache Kafka before. As branding goes, it's hard to do worse. In my mind, Kafka is synonym with complexity, being obscure or byzantine, and a

• th0ma5 12y ago
  Maybe they were trying to channel the idea of the run on sentence which is somewhat more taboo in English than in German, and leads to the Kafka labored style, which he purposefully did. If I try to think of a positive angle, it is that the system can "keep going" perhaps? Anyway, all this stuff is great though.
  • dragonwriter 12y ago
    Run-on sentences aren't taboo, they are just grammatically incorrect. Long sentences may be taboo, but that's a different thing.