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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
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the crazy one. Kafka seems to me to be the only sensible foundational datastore out there: it can maintain and propagate a log with all the properties you would want a datastore to have. Relational database seem to be a crazily overengineered solution in search of a problem, with incredibly poor reliability properties (essentially none of them are true master-master HA out of the box, and they tend to require significant compromises to make them so) to boot.

>>lmm+ltb
you can efficiently do someting with kafka that is equivalent to maintaining relational tables and joining them? seriously?