I've come to know Kafka as very reliable and well understandable queue that solves a few things much nicer than rabbitmq - for example the ability to replay all events still retained in the cluster. My primary pain with it is running the zk cluster, but other than that it's my to-go queue for moderate or larger throughput queues where loosely ordered at least once delivery is fine. My reason to pick it is the feature set and that it has yet to let me down and munch my data.