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Even if that's the case, deploying and scaling a Kafka cluster is something that hundreds of companies have figured out and publicly written about. It's something that you can hire an experienced engineer to fix. When this thing runs into problems, they will be all new ones.

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These days you can also find kubernetes scripts that handle the Kafka installation, setup, routing, etc.

That just leaves the "simple work" of administering and tuning which, as you pointed out, is competence that's steadily growing in the industry.