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Re:The Basics of Apache Kafka by brudgers on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:47PM (#28446938)
At the computer science level, there's What Every Software Engineer Should Know About Real-Time Data Unifying from 2013:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

Reading it was an aha. At its core, the log is the simplest thing that might work in a lot of cases.

Re:The Basics of Apache Kafka by fuzzylightbulb on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:08PM (#28452559)
Not a CS myself, but that was a fascinating read (and very approachable). Thanks!