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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by grzm on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:49PM (#29298657)
> Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka#History

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