[manigandham]

> "using an orchestrator to manage it"

These can be just as fragile and now you have to learn how to manage the orchestrator. Even Confluent's own Kubernetes operator has issues. There's just too many issues with Kafka's design that hinders easy operations.

> "I would never recommend anyone running Kafka in a cloud"

That's a major problem considering that's where most computing is heading. At this point, running in noisey overloaded cloud environments is a good test of the reliability and durability of a software system. Kafka fails massively here.