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Re:Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times by qaq on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:00AM (#15190632)
It's not rare, using Kafka in place of a prober db is crazy though. There are tones of use cases that benefit from having Kafka a very common one is putting Kafka in front of the data processing pipeline to absorb spikes without data loss.
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Re:Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times by sidlls on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:27AM (#15192130)
It's rare that a company has spikes of that sort that can't be handled in far more mundane ways. Most companies do not operate at a scale that merits this sort of solution.

Look at the engineering blogs on LinkedIn for the reasoning behind creating it. It's over-kill for most use cases.

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Re:Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times by qaq on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:19PM (#15194905)
Kafka is fairly mundane piece of software aside from periodic ops issues with Zookeeper.
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