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> I believe that even though Kafka acts the part of "dumb pipe", it doesnt stay dumb for long

In my experience programmers are very happy to do everything in the application (something database people often complain about). What kind of problems do you see?

> If you work with Kafka long enough you’ll realize that data loss will become a problem you didnt think you had. You’ll have to hire people to “look into” data loss problems constantly with Kafka.

Not my experience at all, and I've used Kafka at a wide range of companies, from household-name scale to startups. Kafka is the boring just-works technology that everyone claims they're looking for.

I'm no fan of microservices, but Kafka is absolutely the right datastore most of the time.