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>>pul+(OP)
Must be something about Kafka to attract these kind of explanations. Another one few months back was a children's book on Kafka [1] . For me it just look like solution looking for actual problems.

I wonder if Kafka represents an existential angst in these Kubernetized Microservice times. Or is it more simply I am just too dumb to learn and use this shit correctly.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541339

>>geodel+nkb
When you are wondering whether you might need Kafka, it is certain that you don't need it.

But there are times when you have a problem, and amongst the possible solutions is Kafka.

I've come across Kafkaesque problems only three times in the last seven years: a hosting platform that had to parse logs of over 700 WordPress sites for security and other businesslogic. Putting all events of a financial app backend into datalakes and filtering and parsing all openstreetmap changesets live.