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Re:MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective by ilyt on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:06PM (#35161564)
Soooo right around when you have actual business with actual customers and use cases and are in best moment to re-architecture your app properly instead of throwing infrastructure at wall and seeing what sticks

Then just shove MQTT topics into kafka and slowly migrate stuff over.

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Re:MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective by rad_gruchalski on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:29PM (#35161857)
I worked on a smart home platform where we did exactly that. But we moved from RabbitMQ to Kafka. This was a Spring Boot microservice architecture. We moved all of it without changing the service consume/publish semantics. The added benefit was that to facilitate the move, we wrote full integration tests on real containers and we have replaced RabbitMQ with Kafka under those tests. The system handled much better under load and the company had full integration tests. The migration took 2 weeks with 8 weeks writing tests for a team of 3.
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