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Re:Apache Kafka – Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a... by ihsw on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:53PM (#7387123)
One main advantage is that Kinesis is elastic -- it scales automatically based on load. Managing a Kafka cluster is an unnecessary task with Kinesis available, which alleviates quite a bit of headache.
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Re:Apache Kafka – Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a... by nullspace on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @04:21PM (#7388090)
Ehh - this is just my two cents with working on Kafka. When they say it's high performance, they really really mean. I have gotten very high throughputs on just 2 medium machines.

If you process that much data, Kafka is one of the last things which you'll need to scale out.

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Re:Apache Kafka – Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a... by namelezz on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:29PM (#7388533)
"It scales automatically based on load." Is it freeee?
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