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by coulix 2502 days ago
What pushed you to move to Kafka?
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caust1c 2502 days ago
Reliability, scalability and tooling (in that order).

Basically Kafka provides what NSQ is lacking: https://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html

Messages are durable (across nodes, not just persisted to the filesystem). Messages are delivered in-order (for a partition). Consumers know all partitions of a topic from startup, it's not eventually consistent.

NSQ has been great honestly, it was just designed with different use cases in mind.

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nik736 2502 days ago
Was language a deciding factor? NSQ being Go while Kafka is Java.
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caust1c 2502 days ago
Not at all. We mostly use Go internally for backend services, so if anything that was a point for NSQ.
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zeroc8 2500 days ago
What about NATS Streaming? Is it a viable alternative (now at version 2.0) to Kafka?
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