Stop Building Your Platform Around Kafka
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...
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...
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...