Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
> In our experience, Kafka is one of the most polarizing technologies in the data space. Some people hate it, some people swear by it, but <i>almost every technology company uses it.</i><p>(emphasis added)<p>Surely that's false?<p>Or, I mean, neither of us are providing any <i>evidence</i> here... For my part, 0 of the last 6 companies I've worked for used it. The company before that did (I drove its adoption), but we later abandoned it.<p>Linkedin built Kafka for massive-scale problems that 99% of us don't have. Though technologists have a well-earned reputation for using tech they don't need, <i>my perception</i> is that <i>most</i> of us are succeeding in avoiding the use of Kafka.