[ako]

Do you have a source/link for that original goal? I wasn’t aware of this, and as such expect that I can rely on kafka for my events. Also, if this is really the case it should be mentioned on the homepage of Kafka.

Just checked kafka’s homepage, it mentions mission critical, durable, fault tolerant, stores data safely, zero message loss, trusted… Seems they’ve moved on from their original goal.

[datadeft]

"The original use case for Kafka was to be able to rebuild a user activity tracking pipeline as a set of real-time publish-subscribe feeds. This means site activity (page views, searches, or other actions users may take) is published to central topics with one topic per activity type."

https://kafka.apache.org/