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Re:Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013) by monstrado on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:34PM (#14402674)
Perhaps you haven't spent enough time reading into Kafka? It solves very different problems than the RabbitMQ/Clery "worker queue" pattern you're referring to. That doesn't necessarily mean people don't use Kafka for the wrong reasons.
Re:Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013) by andy_ppp on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:49PM (#14402827)
This is the best explanation I've found about Kafka and Samza: https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...
Re:Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013) by aub3bhat on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:38PM (#14402711)
I don't deny that Kafka solves different problems and has excellent performance at high loads (100K msg/second).

>> That doesn't necessarily mean people don't use Kafka for the wrong reason.

Exactly what I meant.