Comment by smittywerben

I don't understand how everyone hates Kafka I use it as a typed write-ahead JSON log with library support for most languages. Yes the systems I've built with this were overengineered but it worked and was reliable. I just bought a larger disk instead of using whatever remains of the great battle of the zookeeper. I just assumed the fact it has any integration support with standard RDBMs must be a byproduct of being Java as purely an accident.