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The main problem I have with Kafka is that their sales team is too good: at my previous employer the CIO was convinced we needed Kafka and bought a contract for sever 100k. But we already had all our events in a postgres database.

Admittedly that database had some complicated queries with lots of business logic to get a useful view on the data. But at first I hoped Kafka would somehow make this easier, but of course our particular usecase with a low event volume (hundreds per day), high latency tolerance (next day reporting was considered good enough), highly complex business logic (various computations that required knowledge of what was done previously) all made Kafka just about the least suitable tool for the job.

Of course the contract was already signed (I was naturally never consulted up front), so this resulted in lots of solution looking for a problem. No suitable problem was found so I ended up leaving enterprise world for a scale-up and the CIO is still doing whatever he wants for god knows why