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Re:Twitter’s Kafka adoption story by kasey_junk on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:57PM (#18566541)
Actually, I hadn't used Pulsar since they added the reader interface or Kafka wrappers. It likely now does support the event store use cases it didn't previously. Very cool.

The additional requirement of BookKeeper then is the only major technical negative I see, leaving the market share argument as the major negative. I think saying that Kafka has a lot of helper tools being a negative is pretty unfair though. Pulsar has such lower adoption that there just isn't the rationale for creating the helper tools. That shouldn't be used as metric to decide which is more polished.

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Re:Twitter’s Kafka adoption story by manigandham on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:08PM (#18570512)
Most of the tools seem to do the same thing while they would be unneeded for Pulsar so I'm going by that. But yes, Kafka has a much bigger community which is probably what most users want.
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