events

Before you get the wrong idea, I’m a big fan of Kafka. It does a great job but all too often it’s setting your architecture up for failure...

streaming, events, kafka, microservices, architecture

Building reliable events systems As you start to think about whether you need an event or real-time streaming platform, everyone starts in a similar place: Kafka, Samza, OpenTSDB, ELK just for illustration here — a common example but have many alternative and comparable options. This is both a great and the most natural place to start so you’ve not gone wrong yet, but you will quickly discover that this isn’t necessarily the perfect solution...

events, microservices, kafka, streaming, kinesis