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>>borisj+(OP)
Things I have come to know about distributed systems:

The S3 API (object storage) is the accepted storage API, but you do not need AWS (but they are very good at this).

The Kafka API is the accepted stream/ buffer/ queue API, but you do not need Confluent.

SQL is the query language, but you do not need a relational database.

>>buro9+7n
I'd argue that a lot of people are moving from Kafka to NATS. NATS and Kafka serve different purposes and for many use cases related to APIs, NATS has a lot more to offer, like like wildcard topic topologies.