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>>pul+(OP)
Cute, but over years of explaining it I think any explanation of Kafka that presents it as a queue is bound to leave the reader with more misaligned expectations than when they started (while also making them think they learned something, which can be even more dangerous). To keep the Factorio-esque framing, move the consumers, not the messages.

>>moreli+2t
Agreed. There's an important difference between things like Kafka & Kinesis vs RabbitMQ & SQS. The latter are conceptually queues, and the former are conceptually logs. Logs and queues can both be used in many of the same use cases, but it's important to understand how they are different.