[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.