zlacker

I think massive scale is the only reason you'd really want to adopt something like Kafka. If you're 10k inserts/s or less then there's no reason not to do everything in a single big relational DB where you get the warm fuzzy feeling of transactions, point in time backups, scalable read replication, etc

>>peterh+(OP)
Yes but then 'enterprise architects' can't put their shiny cloud certifications to use. They need pubsub regardless of the scale because that's what is recommended by big cloud. And of course the companies also don't mind because there is no immediate devops cost for it. The problems like complexity of debugging, lockin won't hit home at the time of design.