[buro9]

Things I have come to know about distributed systems:

The S3 API (object storage) is the accepted storage API, but you do not need AWS (but they are very good at this).

The Kafka API is the accepted stream/ buffer/ queue API, but you do not need Confluent.

SQL is the query language, but you do not need a relational database.

[jensneuse]

I'd argue that a lot of people are moving from Kafka to NATS. NATS and Kafka serve different purposes and for many use cases related to APIs, NATS has a lot more to offer, like like wildcard topic topologies.

[buro9]

it's the Kafka API, not Kafka itself, that I see as having become the standard.

[62951413]

Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol Apache Kafka is an aging open source project. It's time to accept that Kafka's protocol is what matters. (https://materializedview.io/p/ce-nest-pas-un-kafka)

[xyzzy_plugh]

Which is honestly a shame. It's an awful API.

[ako]

Why?