[TedDoesntTalk]

When you’re dealing with billions of messages, i think queuing systems may be tuned more for it?

I’d like to hear why people chose Kafka over some RDBMS tables.

[jjeaff]

Billions of jobs with hours long time to complete seems like something no one would have the resources for.

[OOPMan]

Just wait till a start convinces someone to give them money for a system that allows anyone, anywhere to queue up infinite loops XD

[raverbashing]

I'm going to be honest, I think some 80% of Kafka users are overengineering it.

Kafka has specific use cases but it seems a lot of people just go "ok use Kafka here" and wait for the load that rarely comes

[eurasiantiger]

In an online environment, having your system go down during those rare times will eventually cost you your business.

[raverbashing]

Sure, then kafka stays online and the rest doesn't because you forgot some details.

[RhodesianHunter]

Performance and distributed nature.