Did you look at any of the other solutions such as fq? 300 bytes is a solidly small size. I’m guessing Kafka has gotten faster since this doc was published, but might be worth investigating.
https://github.com/neophenix/StateOfTheMQ/blob/master/state_...
It was less mature in 2016 when we made the original technology choice (and is still, I'd say, probably not a Boring Technology today). With batching, Kafka is plenty fast for us!
It was less mature in 2016 when we made the original technology choice (and is still, I'd say, probably not a Boring Technology today). With batching, Kafka is plenty fast for us!