[bfrog]

I'm much more excited at this point by conduit, dendrite is cool, but the goal of federation should be easy to install, easy to run, cheap to run. Requiring kafka isn't cheap or easy.

[neilalexander]

Dendrite can be built and run as a single binary. Kafka is only needed if you want to run the microservices as separate processes.

[ptman]

which is why dendrite, in monolith mode, runs their own kafka replacement called naffka

[Arathorn]

naffka is just a library so you don’t even see it :)