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by raverbashing 1163 days ago
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

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In an online environment, having your system go down during those rare times will eventually cost you your business.
Sure, then kafka stays online and the rest doesn't because you forgot some details.