Having several datacenters running Kafka with MirrorMakers between then (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27846330 https://cwiki

Having several datacenters running Kafka with MirrorMakers between then (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27846330 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pa...) is far from being central data storage, it's more like a graph of (reasonably) ordered data distributed across the globe, which is available to any application. I don't really see much of a relationship to unix text stream processing. Maybe in something like a Kafka -> Samza -> Kafka style system -- but even then, it feels like a stretch. There's much more of a focus on the ordering of messages rather than the concept of log here, process there.