[zilchers]

Interesting article, but there’s this architect type out there I’ve been encountering who are like, Kafka maximalists. In this case, the overall model is ok, but the insistence to put the keys into Kafka instead of a normal data store, and then to rely on hot access and the Kafka streams state stuff for potentially millions of keys seems misguided. It’s ok to use relational db’s when they make sense. It almost feels like with Kafka we’re going through the whole NoSql or die thing all over again, just so in a few years we realize Postgres isn’t that bad.