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Re:Starting with Kafka by 411111111111111 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:59AM (#27648989)
> And why no other solutions could have helped?

Where did that idea come from? He literally wrote how they did it without streams by moving data between their Microservices, likely with synchronous http calls. He would've just preferred to just write a stream instead of the services.

Re:Starting with Kafka by winrid on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:41PM (#27657888)
Right! Except we used Thrift, and had around 100 services.