[FeelTheBerns]

I wonder how Kafka would have felt about Apache Kafka preserving his namesake. What specifically about an event pipeline is kafkaesque?

[dangets]

Snippet from "Kafka: The Definitive Guide"

  People often ask how Kafka got its name and if it signifies anything specific about the application itself. Jay Kreps offered the following insight:
    I thought that since Kafka was a system optimized for writing, using a writer’s name would make sense. I had taken a lot of lit classes in college and liked Franz Kafka. Plus the name sounded cool for an open source project.
    So basically there is not much of a relationship.

[FeelTheBerns]

Nice. A real answer. Always surprising whats gets dug up on hackernews.

[brandtg]

Kafka famously left several novels unfinished... like the log, man... Just keeps going

[icandoit]

I feel like it's origins in LinkedIn, the performances people are expected to put in there, and the fact that it runs on a virtual machine, often on a cloud machine make the irony too great to be believable.

[geodel]

May be event processing is stuck for hours/days with single log message "Processing Event..." with no further details :-)

[jessaustin]

"No other event could have been processed here, since this queue was created only for you. Now it will be closed."