[mperham]

Seems weird not to use Redis as the buffering layer + minutely cron job. Seems a lot simpler than installing Kafka + Vector.

[SteveNuts]

Vector is very simple to operate and (mostly) stateless, and can handle buffering if you choose.

Kafka and Redis is a "pick your poison" IMO, scaling and operating those have their own headaches.

[otterley]

Redis isn’t a good durable message queue.