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This was not explicitly addressed in the post, but the big "Kafka antipattern" out there is building "microservice infrastructure" and using a stateful message broker between services where you should be using RPC/look-aside load balancing with deadlines and retries.

Some morons even write books and blog posts about this. The funny thing is this sort of shit is done in the name of scale, but the big folks never operate this way. Large scale infrastructures actively disdain keeping buffers and state in the middle of the request flow. They cannot afford the cost and latency of such systems. They do it the sane way[1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23/presentation/saokar