[eb0la]

Kafka is works very well when you have a IF "receive-this" then that kind of problem.

I find a bit complicated using streams / queues for everything because it is a paradigm shift (turning the database inside out).

BUT when you have a clear use case like ingestion -> refinement step 1-> refinement step 2 it is a _very_ natural way to do stuff with the added benefit I can have as many parallel workers as topic partitions.