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by password4321
12 days ago
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Pardon my ignorance trying to follow up on what is most likely sarcasm but is this not Kafka's claim to fame? I am joining a new project and need to know to what extent Kafka is still a part of the future for new big data projects. It doesn't seem like there are alternatives at the high end but instead the question is when other technologies (that are easier to manage, require less compute, etc.) max out. |
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> I am joining a new project and need to know to what extent Kafka is still a part of the future for new big data projects.
It's not gonna win or die on merit.
If I were to sit here and propose that you mutate bank accounts in-place (which I'm more or less doing by analogy right now over on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339103), and you just need safe enough locking technology to do so, I'd be immediately and rightfully shouted down that no one does that and you write down the money transfers and derive the final balances from that.
Manage any other kind of state, however, by appending state-changes and rolling them into a derived state, and then you're chasing fads and doing resume-driven development. So I'm skeptical about the future of this way of doing things.