[1bent]

In case anyone else didn't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka

[Huntsecker]

genuinely surprised that kafka is something unknown, thought it had gained ubiquitous status similar to k8s but maybe that's me walking into a Baader–Meinhof effect

[vitaliyf]

Franz Kafka is certainly not unknown, ever since long before people who worked on K8s were even born.

See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296969